Hermit: A Font Created Specifically for Programmers

Hermit is a font created specifically for programmers, designed to provide clarity and efficiency during coding. With its monospace design, each character is carefully planned and calculated to be consistent and easily distinguishable from other characters, ensuring that symbols, dots, commas and operators are clearly visible and easy to identify. The font has been created with the programmer in mind, taking into account the many principles and rules which dictate coding. Its overall design is focused on providing a readable, pragmatic and consistent font which allows developers to write code quickly and accurately. With its clear and regular design, Hermit has become a popular font amongst programmers with its ability to help reduce coding mistakes and improve readability. In conclusion, Hermit is an excellent font for programmers. With its unique design and focus on readability and accuracy, it is the perfect choice for developers who want to increase their coding speed and reduce mistakes. It is a font which has been created specifically for programming and its benefits are immediately obvious.

Copyright (c) 2013, Pablo Caro - http://pcaro.es/
with Reserved Font Name Hermit.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
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## Hermit

Hermit is a monospace font designed to be clear, pragmatic and very readable.
Its creation has been focused on programming. Every glyph was carefully planned
and calculated, according to defined principles and rules. For this reason,
Hermit is coherent and regular.

Symbols stand out from common text. Dots and commas are easily seen, and
operators are clear even when not surrounded by spaces. Similar characters have
been designed to be very distinguishable from each other.


## Features

* Monospace. Clear and readable. Nice for hacking and coding!
* Regular, Bold and Light weights. Italic for every weight.
* Clear, at least, on sizes 8 and bigger.
* Coverage of a big part of Latin character sets (Basic, Western European,
Central European, South Eastern European).
* Integrated [Powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline) symbols.
* [OFL 1.1 License][ofl].


## Samples

Hermit’s true habitat is a terminal or a text editor, not a website. You should
just download it and watch it by yourself, in your very own environment!

However, if you just want to see a sample, please go to [my website][site].


## Cost

Hermit is free, as in both "free beer" and "freedom". However, if and only if
you like my work and you think I deserve it, I accept
[donations](https://pcaro.es/donations). But, if you don't want or you can't
make a donation, I'll think you're awesome anyway.


## Downloads

You can download the Hermit font on [my website][site].

Hermit is also available in
[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-hermit/),
[Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/hermit)
(thanks, Patrick!) and
[Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pcaro-hermit-fonts)
(thanks, Ryan!).


## Improvements, issues, suggestions

If you have a good idea for an improvement in Hermit, or you have found an
issue, or you have a great suggestion for a future version, you can send me an
[email][email]. If you are trying to explain me something you don't like, you
should attach a screenshot.

I also like emails that just say you like Hermit!


## ToDos and NotToDos

Hermit is not perfect. It was done under certain circumstances, trying to fill
some needs. This, of course, could not be enough to fill somebody else's needs.

Some of these needs may be covered in the future, such as:

* Add more Unicode characters.
* Add it to Google Fonts.

However, I cannot take care of covering some other requests, for example:

* Add Cyrillic characters.
* Add Greek characters.


## Changelog

- 2019/01/15: Hermit v2.0
- Major version, lots of changes! This version was done usingn Glyphs App
instead of FontForge. However, an UFO file is exported, so Hermit can
still be edited with several tools.
- Added a lot of mark+letter glyphs... Hermit should cover most european
languages!
- Medium version was renamed to Regular.
- Added a propper Bold version, made by hand with love. It is now
consistent with the Regular version, and thus actually monospaced.
- The Light version was not made by hand, but interpolated (extrapolated?)
from the other two versions. It should work a lot better now.
- Added an Italic version (Regular, Bold and Light weights), consistent with the
rest of the versions. Thanks, kul!
- Marked as monospaced (isFixedPitch). Thanks, Tidux!
- Every glyph was individually revised and, in some cases, hinted and
adjusted to be more clear.
- Completely redesigned 't' and 'f'. They are now simpler, more
Hermit-like, and they render better on smaller sizes. I know this is a
change a lot of people won't like, but remember: Hermit is open source
and free as in "freedom", so you can change it back if you wish!
- Added '₿' symbol (Bitcoin, U+20BF). Thanks, JasonLeeH!
- Added '✓' symbol (Checkmark, U+2713). Thanks, Evan!
- Font width is now 618, so glyphs have an actual half. I sincerely don't
remember why it was 617, which is a prime number (maybe just because of
that, that seems like me. Also, 617 is part of a twin prime pair with
619, and may be expressed as a sum of 2 squares: 16² + 19². But 618 is
also cool. I guess...).

- 2013/12/21: Hermit v1.21
- Changed "Font name" and "Name for Humans" field, so different weights can
be installed on Windows.
- Some glyphs were not properly centered, and had a different width. They
are fine now.

- 2013/12/20: Hermit v1.2
- Light and bold versions added.
- '\`' (grave accent) is now smaller.
- '%' symbol is now wider and more clear.
- '/' symbol is now lower. It aligns with the underscore glyph.
- '⚡' symbol is now bigger.
- Bullet symbol is now bigger, and it's aligned with '\*'.
- Black and white squares family added (U+25A0, U+25A1, U+25FB, U+25FC,
U+25FD, U+25FE, U+25AA, U+25AB).
- Black and white triangles family added (U+25B2 - U+25C5)
- Black circle added (U+25CF).
- Ellipsis added (U+2026).
- White square containing black square added (U+25A3).
- Full range of vertically-growing blocks added (U+2580 - U+2587).
- Full range of horizontally-growing blocks added (U+2589 - U+2590).
- 'virtual.circum' moved to 'Circumflex' (U+02C6).
- 'virtual.caron' moved to 'Caron' (U+02C7).
- 'virtual.ring' moved to 'ring above' (U+02DA).
- 'virtual.tilde' removed.

- 2013/10/19: Hermit v1.1
- Dropped support to TTF.
- [Powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline) symbols added.
- Slightly improved hinting.
- '⚡' symbol added (U+26A1).
- Bullet symbol added (U+2022).
- Figure dash, en dash, em dash and horizontal bar symbols added.
- 'f' is now thinner and more round, so it's more distinguishable from 'F'.
- 'g' is now more square.
- '%' adjusted.
- '-' (minus), '+', '\*', '=', '<', '>', '«', '»', '~', '¬' and soft hyphen
glyphs have been moved sightly up. They are now aligned with curly
braces. I hope this is their last location.
- '|' ("pipe" symbol) is now lower. It aligns with the underscore glyph.
- 'virtual.i' moved to 'dotlessi' (U+0131).
- 'virtual.acute' moved to 'acute' (U+00B4).
- 'virtual.dieresis' moved to 'dieresis' (U+00A8).

- 2013/09/12: Hermit v1.01
- '-' (minus), '+', '\*', '=', '<', '>', '~', '¬' and soft hyphen glyphs
have been lowered. They are now centered in x-height, like "short
letters".
- 'y dieresis' shows now the dieresis correctly.

- 2013/09/12: Hermit v1
- First release.

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