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I was setting up my new Mac and decided to try something different to my usual monospace font of choice, MonoLisa.

I was aiming to find a typeface reminiscent of the early Apple keyboards, like the one used on the Apple Extended Keyboard II (which was apparently a form of Univers 57 Oblique), but instead I stumbled across the beautiful Maple Mono.

I’ve been using it in iTerm and VS Code consistently for a few weeks now and I really like it. I especially like using the italic variant for type hints in Rust, which you can enable by adding this to your settings.json in VS Code.

{
  "editor.inlayHints.fontFamily": "MapleMono-NF-ThinItalic"
}

This actually took me a while to figure out, so hopefully that is helpful to someone!