@_philpl Bought! Love the simple site you setup btw, very fast. What'd you use to implement the no user/pass login?

I find it quite unreadable...the italics mainly.

I'd love to try it to see if it makes a difference in coding happiness. Never thought about changing the font, still using the default font in Sublime Text 3. I've only changed the theme and syntax highlighting.

Just bought it and love it. Great work Phil!

I wasn't sure, if it's reasonable enough to give $40 for a font (for EU citizens it's actually £40, even more). Yet, I decided to give it a go and support Phil's brave idea. I use mainly PHP and the font doesn't come that fancy for it, but front-end languages got a serious improvement. Generally speaking, it's the best font I've experienced on a Retina Mac. Great job! 👍

Contrary to other views, I'm happy to support this project and £40 really isn't much in that regard — not everything has to be open-source/free. Thanks for creating this Phil.

Pros:

Beautiful.

Cons:

None really, license is flexible and purchase was easy.

Umm...anybody (3 or 4 devs) wanna split this license?

Dank

Absolutely well intentioned, but overstates itself. Things that increase the value of your product, like research, was purposefully avoided, along with established patterns (Why? No reason given). Jargon like "monotone spacing" (which isn't a thing) is scattered throughout the post without explanation or definition. I fear this is an open source font with some added glyphs, bent corners, a medium post, and somehow got much more traffic than it deserves.

It's pretty much San Francisco Mono and Operator Mono combined. I like it a lot :-)

We have decent free fonts to work with why would anyone pay 40 bucks to use a font in his editor ?

Pros:

Nice looking

Cons:

$40 ?!

while I would give this font a ride I just could not justify $40 purchase on font with so many open-source and free alternative. It's just a monospaced font after all, not a programming tool.

Pros:

reasonable good looking

Cons:

$40 price tag

My code has never looked more spiffing.

I was initially concerned that ligatures would be confusing, but nothing could be further from the case: if anything I'm concerned about not having the visual affordance now!

I love it.

Pros:

1) Dankness 2) The "f" character 3) The ligatures rock

Cons:

You use it to write code. Boo.

While I understand that it's okay to get paid for your hard work, with all the opensource alternatives I find it too bad to ask for money when it's clearly not made for businesses. Welp, good work anyway.

Pros:

It's a monospace font that looks good

Cons:

It's not free

40$ is definitely too pricey when the free, high quality "Fira Code" exists https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I'm using Fira Code for several years, and only those not aware of free alternatives would risk buying this font. I wouldn't buy this without testing it first on my code. Too bad the 40$ tag is preventing me from doing that...

Other programming fonts (free and paid) https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCo...

Pros:

Helps raising awareness on the importance of a good font.

Cons:

Price. Free, quality competition exists.

I have been on the fence for well over a year trying to decide if I wanted to purchase the Operator Mono font (it is quite pricey) and then along comes Dank Mono. Well, easily 6 months, I decided to pull the trigger! This font is awesome, well worth the cost of supporting a developer who has devoted time and energy. As a software development who gets paid for writing code, I think supporting a product such as this is the least I can do. Love it!

Tried to purchase, got an error about my zip code. There is no way to contact the author, not even an e-mail address on the website. So I will not purchase this, seems like the most basic thing is to at least put up a contact e-mail to deal with issues.

I am no master typesetter, just a dude with a love for typography, and I'd like to offer my two cents— First impression is somewhat mixed, some characters are almost perfect, while most glyphs ooze with an amateurish feel. But as you said, you're a developer who made this typeface, so hats off to you! Next, the ultra-minute features are better off in a display typeface rather than a monospace coding font. They are way too small to make a difference, and I don't agree with the "contribute to the overall feel of the font." statement you made. The 'f' is brilliant. That is a feature that really gets noticed. But it stops there. The stroke contrast is glaringly inconsistent across glyphs, even more so in the Italic version. Some of those finials could use some rework. The italics is a bit of an overkill, in my opinion. I really hate Operator Mono, it lacks the subtle elegance of many of the costlier monospace typefaces, and sadly, this too falls in that bucket. Dank Mono is one of those products that will polarise users— they either love it or hate it. Personally, I think the normal version is brilliant for a first attempt, and I hate the italic variant. That said, I'd love to see a v2, there's a lot of potential here. And oh, its way too expensive at $40, without an trial, that too.

It looks really good if you're a fan of certain things about your fonts. Also italic version is something some people will definitely enjoy.

But nothing beats Menlo in my book 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pros:

Nice aesthetics if you're a fan of Fira, italic version

Cons:

Costs more than "Borda" design font.

I write code everyday in life. However £40 for a monospaced font? If you buy this then congratulations, you clearly have money with which to set fire to.