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This comment didn't make sense to me, it seems like this is like saying there are enough paintings or sculptures in the world for people to see whatever kind of

This comment didn't make sense to me, it seems like this is like saying there are enough paintings or sculptures in the world for people to see whatever kind of art they want and have whatever emotional reactions they're going to get from the existing art. This isn't like open source license proliferation or something, having more fonts is just more room for experimentation and creativity, more choice for designers, etc. you don't have to keep up with every single one, and it doesn't make things harder like eg. open source license proliferation where the more of them you have the more you need a lawyer to review every dependency. But maybe I'm misunderstanding and there's some harm here?

pickledish 6y ago
Ah, yeah I do see where you're coming from. I guess I just haven't been looking at font faces so much as "art" (mostly because it seems like there isn't a lot of room for variation or creativity; most of these "new" font faces look more or less the same to me, but that could also just be my untrained eye). You're totally right that there's no harm, and I also wasn't trying to belittle the effort of making new fonts! I was more wondering why a _company_ would want to expend the probably quite significant resources to create a whole new font (as opposed to a solo artist doing it for fun, which I'd understand) -- but the other response to my top-level comment gives some good reasoning to that question :)