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No, it's not recommended for coding; it's a display font, to be used for headlines, titles, and the like, things where you want a little bit of stylistic flair. Here's the description from the link:

  About

  Space Mono is an original fixed-width type family designed by Colophon 
  Foundry for Google Design. It supports a Latin Extended glyph set, 
  enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.

  Developed for editorial use in headline and display typography, the 
  letterforms infuse a geometric foundation and grotesque details with 
  qualities often found in headline typefaces of the 1960s (See: 
  Microgramma[1], Eurostile[2]), many of which have since been co-opted by 
  science fiction films, television, and literature.

  Typographic features include old-style figures, superscript and subscript 
  numerals, fractions, center-height and cap-height currency symbols, 
  directional arrows, and multiple stylistic alternates.

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostile


it's not recommended for coding

You're not kidding! Code displayed in this font looks downright bizarre[0]!

[0] https://i.imgur.com/6HHFhCw.png


I think that looks lovely...




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