Hack

Hack

a typeface designed for source code

No frills. No gimmicks. Hack is hand groomed and optically balanced to be a workhorse face for code. It has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and expands upon the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects.

Read more about Hack, visit the project website, take a look at a complete type specimen or marvel at the CHANGELOG.

The font binaries are released under a license that permits unlimited print, desktop, and web use for commercial and non-commercial applications. More details in LICENSE.md

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Quick installation

We recommended using the TrueType (.ttf) version of Hack. An OpenType (.otf) build is available for experienced users.

Mac OS X and Linux

1. Download the latest version of Hack.
2. Extract the files from the archive (.zip) and open them.
3. Follow the instructions from your operating system.
4. Enjoy!

NOTE ON UPDATING
If you are updating your version of Hack, be sure to remove the previously installed version first to avoid conflicts. For more information, see INSTALLATION.md.

Windows

To simplify the installation process on Windows systems, we've created the Hack Windows Installer (.exe) which will guide you through the installation process. The installer will also clean up any previous installation of Hack.

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Advanced options

Because Hack is under active development and updates are released frequently, we highly recommended using a package manager or other auto-updating utility. While the package manager releases may be a bit delayed relative to the repository releases, the package managers automate and simplify font updates on your system.

Package managers and desktop installation

Details on using package managers and/or advanced manual desktop installation options can be found in INSTALLATION.md.

Hack can be installed and updated via various package managers. We are aware of package manager support on the following systems/distros:

• Mac OS X: homebrew
• Arch Linux: pacman
• Fedora / CentOS: copr, dnf or yum
• Gentoo Linux: emerge
• Ubuntu / Debian: apt-get

Web font usage

Hack is available in all the regular webfont formats. See WEBFONT_USAGE.md for more details, or use the snippets below to quickly include Hack via a CDN by the generous gang at jsDelivr. Bold and italic styles are included by default and work out-of-the-box via the <strong> and <em> tags.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/font-hack/2.020/css/hack.min.css">

code {
	font-family: Hack, monospace;
}

Additional tools for customization

font-line is a tool that lets you easily modify the default line spacing of Hack. See the font-line repository for more details, and be sure to check out the line-spacing repository for some font-line automation.

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Overview of features

• Typeface Name: Hack
• Category: Monospaced
• Powerline Support: Yes
• Number of Glyphs: 1561
• Included Glyph Sets: TODO
• Included Styles: Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic
• Latest Release: v2.020 (2016-04-29)

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License

Hack © 2015-2016, Christopher Simpkins (with Reserved Font Name Hack)
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono © 2003 Bitstream, Inc. (with Reserved Font Names Bitstream and Vera)

See LICENSE.md for the full texts of these licences.