Adobe's New Open Source Font: Source Code Pro
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This past summer, Adobe released their first open source type family, Source Sans Pro. It was inspired by classic sans serfis like Franklin Gothic and News Gothic, and was intended to be useful for both small user interface labels and passages of text.
And now a new monospaced variant called Source Code Pro, has been released.
The new font came about through a request by the team at Adobe working on Brackets, an open source code editor. They asked for a coding font, and were obliged with a carefully crafted variant on Source Sans Pro.
Source Code Pro can be downloaded from the Open@Adobe portal on SourceForge. The download package includes six weights (Extra Light, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, and Black) in both TTF and OTF formats.
For more information on Source Code Pro, read the announcement by Paul Hunt on Typblography. He writes, “In coding, many of the characters we take for granted are more meaningful symbols in computer languages. To make these more legible, I increased the size of punctuation marks, and optimized the shapes of important characters like the greater- and less-than signs, and adjusted heights of dashes and mathematical symbols so that these align better with each other.”
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