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Selling font direct to consumers is extremely bad business model. This doesn’t work. People are not keen on shelling out 100s of dollars when IDEs already come
by sytelus 5y ago
Selling font direct to consumers is extremely bad business model. This doesn’t work. People are not keen on shelling out 100s of dollars when IDEs already come with decent fonts and other thousands of free fonts readily available. This font looks great but most people would argue about marginal benefit. I would hope they would partner with IDE makers and big tech and give them license to use it for their expected revenue instead.
- rbanffy 5y agoSorry, but no IDE comes with a proper 3278-like font. Not even IBM's Developer for z/OS comes with one (they commissioned that other font called Plex... who would take seriously a font named after a media player?). Luckily, everyone can get one at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font. Note: shameless plug ;-)
- michaelcampbell 5y agoThat is delightful. I remember using 3270's back in "the lab" in high school ("alt-pf2" twice to compile!), and marveling at the individual phosphors on the screen. (When I could see better, for sure.)
- rbanffy 5y agoSadly, it doesn’t turn the keyboard into a beam spring one…
- TranquilMarmot 5y agoThat's another expensive hobby to get into
- rbanffy 5y agoI can make it sound like a Selectric, at least: https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
- michaelcampbell 5y agoI have an aftermarket buckling spring KB. Well, my wife "has" it, and I will never, ever get it back.
- sytelus 5y agoI also think creators of this font likely have not performed any market testing or studied price-revenue curves. I might take a bet that $5 flat price would produce higher revenues. Another option for them is to bundle many such fonts by forming group with other creators together. That has higher chance of selling a professional fonts as package to IDE makers and big tech.