I have a new favorite coding font

Last week I came across a post on Mastodon mentioning Maple Mono, a monospaced font. We don't really have a shortage of fonts, there's a lot out there (MonoLisa and Monaspace being my other favorites), but I'd never found one that manages to be so easy to read while also being incredibly cute.

Its main appeal is how rounded the characters are — monospaced fonts are usually blocky due to the constraint of all characters having to have the same width. It also has amazing italics-specific styles and some custom glyphs for commonly-used characters in programming. Seriously, just look at those:

I already swapped my code editor and terminal fonts to Maple Mono, and even changed the monospace font on this website to it already! It pairs greatly with the Catppuccin colors.

Live example

Unless you're reading on an RSS reader, here's two examples of the font being used. On the heading above ☝️ and on the code block below 👇

<script>
	$('#example').on('click', (e) => {
		alert('clicked!');
	});
</script>

<div class="pixel-flux">
	<button id="example">Click @ me</button>
</div>

<style>
/* Look at those sweet, sweet italics */
.pixel-flux {
	background: peachpuff;
	/* And this gorgeous ampersand */
	& #example {
		color: goldenrod;
	}
}
</style>