Show HN: CADR Mono – a programming font designed in Lisp

Category: other

Tags: font, typeface, common-lisp, programming-font, generative-design

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

CADR Mono is a monospace programming font generated entirely from Common Lisp, where every glyph is a pure function of parameters. It includes a dark-background grade, computed box-drawing/braille/powerline glyphs, and a drawn italic, with broad Latin/Greek/Cyrillic coverage. The parametric generation approach is an interesting fusion of Lisp and typography.

Target audience: developers, terminal users, typography enthusiasts

Repository: https://github.com/atgreen/cadr-mono · Common Lisp · OFL-1.1 · 5 stars

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