Astigmata : My Monospace Programming Font

For those of you who want to skip straight to the money shot, the .rar of the current font is here:
https://deathshadow.com/downloads/Astigmata-Regular.rar

The file contains .ttf, .woff, and .woff2 so it’s easy to use both as an installed font, and on websites. I’m releasing this to the public domain, use it as you like so long as you give credit to the creator (me) someplace. To that end I make no guarantees on its efficacy.

As of right now it only supports the 96 characters of ASCII. I may at some point — if enough people like it — flesh it out to the full Latin-1 set, and maybe toss in the semi-graphics characters too.

Why I Did It

Over the past year my vision has taken a turn for the worse. Between cataracts in the right eye — that the soonest I cen get removed is five months away — and a pronounced increase in my astigmatism? Even some of the best programming fonts like Fira Code and Hack — ones I actively advocated the use of — just don’t “work for me” anymore.

Some glyphs are too thin, there are shape recognition issues with symbols… I mean my vision is at the point that in most monospace fonts I can’t tell [] apart from {}, comma’s apart from periods, or even see graves. (aka `backtick quotes`).