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+## Hack Typeface Design
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+Hack is a monospaced typeface that is designed to optimize the display of source code text.
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+### Primary Design Targets
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+- ASCII glyph set (used to display the body of all source code text)
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+- font sizes between 8 - 14 px
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+- cross-platform, cross font renderer support on Linux, OS X, and Windows operating systems
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+- desktop text editor text displays
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+- terminal emulator text displays
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+- website text displays
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+- print text displays
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+### Primary Design Optimizations
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+- legibility - establish differences in the appearance of similar glyph shapes so as to properly identify different Unicode code points
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+- readability - glyph shape and spacing optimizations to improve the capacity to read character-character, word-word, and code block-code block combinations in source code
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+- visual semantics - establish semantic commonalities for glyphs used in source code text and create common visual designs within these semantic groups
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+### Secondary Design Targets
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+- All glyphs outside of the ASCII set (including extended character sets used for the display of comments in source code)
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+- All font sizes outside of the primary design targets
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+- All forms of text display outside of the primary design targets
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Chris Simpkins