I hear you: I don't like how skinny the letterforms are. There's an "extended" variant that I find much more pleasing. I put together a customization you can see here: https://codeberg.org/ashton314/iosevka-output (there's a nice screenshot on that page).

You can probably get the proportions you want if you find a way to tweak the line spacing (also possible by adjusting the `leading` option in `private-build-plans.toml` and rebuilding).

Nice blend, thanks.

Ubuntu Mono remains undefeated for now for me though.

From another point of view, the font is just as tall as other fonts, just less wide. So I suspect you are (maybe unconsciously) making an unfair comparison by scaling one font more than the other.

You can see an apples-to-apples comparison here:

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#iosevka

(and then put and hold your finger on the last line of text and select another font)

Yes, you are correct. When I shrunk it to have the same amount of lines as Ubuntu Mono, it was uncomfortably small.

But you are inspiring me to give it another go. Thanks.

They are beautiful fonts and are often updated, too. Clearly a lot care goes into their crafting.