# Monaspace

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/monaspace-font/

11 people recommended Monaspace in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 11 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “GitHub Monaspace Case Study”.

**Verdict:** Free GitHub font family whose variants change letterforms while keeping monospace grids; people praise its design and brackets, though some find narrow variants too wide.

Summary written by Claude from 15 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Well-designed, high-quality type work (2 comments in the sample): "This is a great execution of a very common font practice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595079)) "the type designers did incredible work with monaspace" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588949))
- Attractive glyphs and brackets (2 comments in the sample): "But this one looks really good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593875)) "Finally, a bracket I can enjoy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595500))
- Clever idea for monospace fonts (1 comment in the sample): "What a brilliant idea, neat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833136))

## What people warn about

- Narrow variant still too wide (2 comments in the sample): "even the narrower option looks too wide on my terminal" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591210)) "it seems weird that their variable font doesn't go narrower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593072))

## Other monospace fonts people recommend

- [Iosevka](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iosevka/): 95 recommend, 13 mixed, 9 criticize
- [Nordwand Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nordwand-mono/): 30 recommend, 9 mixed, 4 criticize
- [JetBrains Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jetbrains-mono/): 21 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [Berkeley Mono](https://hackerapproved.com/p/berkeley-mono/): 21 recommend, 6 mixed, 5 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Monaspace", https://hackerapproved.com/p/monaspace-font/ (11 recommend, 4 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.