I have bought it on sight, and never regretted a second after installing it. It's readable, easy on the eyes, and really brings the character of "the golden era of computing" to your environment. As a person who have started with computers relatively early, this font makes me feel at home.

I use it on my terminals, text editors, IDE, and browser, and it's both unobtrusive and delightful, at the same time. If you're into dark themes, pair with Gruvbox Dark. You won't regret it.

It's doesn't follow the trend, but puts its own rules on the table, and it shows.

I can't recommend this enough.

There's a suspicious amount of comments posted at roughly the same time praising the font and claiming the price is worth it. These comments include "after a few trial days", which is unrealistic, because no sane person would go for "a few days" with swapped slashes and backslashes.

The trial (license valid for 7 days) is "Limited to ASCII-128 character set" but also says:

>Swapped: '/' and '\', '*' and '#'

Is that latter a common sort of thing in this scenario? I get the idea—certainly makes coding/terminal/markdown annoying—but I don't think I've seen that done elsewhere.

Berkeley Mono is my favourite! It's the crossed seven that matches my handwritten style which I really appreciate. Not very common in other monospace fonts I've tried.

I really enjoy this font for development and writing documentation. I carry it around for everything. Default monospace across the board: Terminal, IDE, Notes; sometimes I go buck-wild and monospace the entire Desktop-Environment to match.

I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free.

[0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

I bought it – or rather, asked for it as a gift from my wife – and it was well worth it. It brings me just a tiny bit of joy every time I see one of the beautiful ligatures in my terminal, and I was also just happy to support the creator. It takes effort to make a well-formed font, and I am thankful that there are people willing to devote time to it.

I'm a huge fan of this typeface. Initially, I was skeptic about paying, but I spent hours every single day on the screen, and after using the trial for a few days, I was sold. It's extremely good designed, the numbers are crisp, and everything is well-balanced and thought out. It's worth every single cent.

This was the first time I bought a font, and -- surprisingly -- I haven't regretted it at all. Every time I look at my terminal there's always a little bit of happiness at how elegant the font looks.

No Cyrillic languages. It shows only few ligatures for JavaScript. And with this in mind it costs $75 when there are plenty free alternatives. Who's the target audience here?

This looks like a joke: “ DO NOT OPERATE ON CRITICAL CODE WITH THE TRIAL FONT. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES TO YOUR MAINFRAME SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE.”

I have paid for this and I am using it in the Terminal, in my IDE and even on my CV! It is a great font and I highly recommend it.

Anything new here?

Bunch of discussion last year on a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30557557

The ligatures were released earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583520

Berkeley Mono is also my favourite font. I use it in the terminal, editor and for my IDE. It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBrains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

Has anyone successfully turned this into a nerd font? I'd love to know it works before handing over my $75.

Update: I tried the font patcher on the trial version, but it didn't work. The font patcher ran successfully, and I can see all the added glyphs in Font Book on my Mac, but the glyphs don't work in my terminal.

Output from the font patcher is here: https://app.warp.dev/block/sWNVtsGQkYqvaa3HXa0eFN

Further update: Works in iTerm2, but not in Warp. The plot thickens!

Further further update: Some removing and restarting and reinstalling fixed it! I think Warp was caching something.

i bought and have been using Berkeley Mono exclusively. it's well worth the cost

Check the difference between Sf mono and this, not worth 75$ usd

This does look very nice!

Still, I often go back to what I know and what I got used to as the default on the OS.

So, as a macOS user, I work with Apple's SF Mono:

  https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

I tried hard to get along with JetBrains Mono, but in the end I just didn't enjoy their ligatures!

Also, I never get bored of discussions on what dev monospace fonts people use! :-D

I’ve been using this font for almost 2 years now and I love how unique and interesting it still looks

I like the font and was thinking about putting it on my blog, but $75 seems like a lot when there are other pretty good options. Maybe I'll test the free version and see if I love it..

I bought it. I love it. I wonder when the next version will come out.

Finally a good programming font. There's always a catch, 0 vs O, l vs. | vs I, ( too similar to [ (looking at you B612), but this, this one seems to cover all the bases. Sad about the pricing. For the developed world it's Ok, but spending >25% of a minimum wage on a font is too much for me.

A good alternative to me is Spline Sans Mono. I don't like its curved "l", though.

I bought it awhile back and switched a bunch of apps over to using it. I’ve had a few people comment while doing a screen share that my terminal/console/ide looks cool. I only use the stock themes on most things I use (Microsoft terminal, vs code, eMacs). They’re basically noticing the font but can’t place the difference ;)

JetBrains Mono ftw. Also, what’s with this weird slash swapping after the trial period!

Fira Code and Caskaydia are my favorites.

These typefaces that give the illusion of not being monospace are fun! And this one was a good example of those. Very easy on the eye and even with a spark of timeless retro computing. They manage get a lot into a single typeface here.

Seems really nice, and I was about to order, but then I looked at how the trial version renders the word "Berkeley". On my screen it looks like "Be r ke ley".

I have been hovering the buy button for a while now, the only thing that's keeping me to buy yet is that I really like Extralight/Thin fonts. I hope they add such a version.

Confusing presentation of the multiple 0 in the same sample box.

No CJK support? That's unfortunate, so far I've only found a single code font with CJK support (Code2000) and I'd really like a nicer one.

I've been using a 3270 typeface, but I like this better! It's like what the 3270 face would look like if it had higher resolution available.

My first impression is the kerning/letter spacing feels off. Am I the only one?

Edit: for example the space between the ‘m’ and the ‘a’ in ‘machine’ seems very big.

No hungarian language support, meh

It's nice, but I don't want to be paying for my principal developer font, when there are dozens of free alternatives.

I am also hesitant about working (even free) third-party tools into my workflow. I have had the pleasure of dealing with these tools going belly-up (a couple just did, but they were important -not critical).

Looks interesting. Developer license: $75. No free version.

I'm not paying $75 for an ugly blocky font.

I expected this to be free, damn.

It's the nicest monospace font I've seen in a while, and I'd love to try it out, but $75 is a rather hefty price for development use. I don't mean to diminish the work that's been done, but more... I wonder if you could sell twice as much by cutting the price in half.

$75 prices out quite a lot of people.

"You wouldn't steal a font"

Looks like OCR-B and Letter Gothic had a baby. There are better fonts for coding.

It's not just free? Instead it's $75 for an individual "license" and they sell enterprise licenses? Seems quite out of line with the vibe they portray the font embodies

The font says trial lol, what is there a pop up saying the 7 days is over? lol gtfoh

IMO this is pretty hard to read. And why are there two different glyphs for the number 0?

Jetbrains Mono, which is also FOSS, seems nicer: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

super annoying web design from a graphic design company to show a typeface that purports its goal is to "get out of the way" so you can be productive, why not show some calm examples of text as in a terminal at a normal typesize? I had to zoom out to 60% just to tame it, and yet there was still blinking all over the place and nothing that approximated anything other than a phone screen.

does something about this typeface set it apart in a useful way from the zillion other free or default monospaced options? If anything it seemed a little awkward with the flourishes they added toward making it look fauxCR-able. (an artistic flourish I like as "zany graphic fun" but is it helpful for extended use?)

for the people who love it, I've no problem with enjoying flourishes, but it's calling itself serious. I'm serious and it's not taking me seriously.