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Intel One Mono Font Designed With and For Low-Vision Developers
The font designers meticulously tweaked letters to make them highly distinctive.
Credit: Frere-Jones Type
There's a new font in town.
Called Intel One Mono, the font was designed by tech giant Intel, together with New York-based type design practice Frere-Jones Type, and marketing agency VMLY&R. It joins a group of monospaced fonts designed primarily for developers. By definition, monospaced fonts consist of characters that have the same width and occupy the same horizontal space, making it easy for coders and programmers to tell the difference between long strings of characters. But here's where Intel One Mono stands out: it was designed with and for low-vision developers. (It's free to download on GitHub and will soon be available on Google Fonts.)
To ensure the font was legible and readable to its target audience, the team ran more than a dozen "live testing sessions" with visually impaired developers who were asked to write code using Intel One Mono. "I and a number of researchers would be sitting where I am right now watching these people program, and as they identified a pain point we'd stop and look at where it was coming from," says Fred Shallcrass, a type designer at Frere-Jones Type.
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