Alex Console
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Meet Alex Console, the handsome, monospaced, and geometric sans-serif font with a inspiration from Rodrigo Fuenzalida's "Outfit" font. As it's licensed under SIL Open Font License, Alex Console font is ready to improve your coding experince!
Alex Console is a another open-source handsome geometric sans monospaced font, licensed officially under SIL Open Font License.
Many of proportional fonts like “Outfit” does not have a monospaced sibling, untill XLS2009 designed a lot of monospaced fonts that inspired by serval proportional fonts. The monospaced fonts are sometimes can be important, but most monospaced fonts selection is less flexible, selective, and the apperance sometimes doesn't seem to fit well, and this is why some fans of the porportional fonts designed a monospaced font that based or inspired from proportional fonts to improve the coding experinces.
Alex Console font uses simplified single-storey lowercase “a” alongside with unsual single-storey “æ”, flat-top digit “3”, opened-form digit “4”, and tail-less/straight-tail lowercase “t” to match well with the Outfit font. Just like Outfit font, the Alex Console font is only supporting all Latin glyphs that available in the Outfit font at this time.
Tuesday 27 October 2026 Update:
- Added serifs to both lowercase “i” and “l” to maximize the empty spaces in these both letters. (It was not too effective, lol)
- Added serifs to digit “1” in vulgar fractions.Wednesday 28 October 2026 Update:
- Removed bottom serifs from lowercase “i” and “l” to avoid ambiguity with digit numbers.Alex Console font is officially licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1 - You can use this font for commercial or experimental purposes.
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Info:Created on Tue, 26th May. Last edited on Wed, 28th October.
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The addition of bottom serifs is a good update for this monospaced font, but the problem is on the lowercase “L” and digit “1". These both could cause ambiguity as these both different glyphs look like the same. I recommend you to distinguish these glyphs from each other, by making lowercase "l" has bottom hook instead of a horizontal straight bar, or remove the bottom serif in digit "1". Overall, Alex Console is a good and clean monospaced font with distinct characteristics.
I've reverted the lowercase “I” and “L” yesterday to distinguish from digit “1”. But, I'm still trying to find a way to distinguish lowercase “L” from digit “1” in the Outfit font without leaving many clear space gaps between other characters.
@XLS2009 (Win Products) - You could be to have the top of the 1 angle down to the left instead of being horizontal (and use two pixels instead of one). This would be similar in style to the angle on your 4, so it wouldn't look out of place, design-wise.
Goatmeal, The Outfit font also has top-angled “1” by turning on the stylistic set 1 (it's a OpenType feature), by the way. But I'm would like to reconsider about its design before doing any other changes and improvements.
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