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It's a money-saving measure. Pay a typographer once and own your own font, vs. having to pay Monotype or whoever a yearly sub with endless licensing issues.
by slater 3y ago
It's a money-saving measure. Pay a typographer once and own your own font, vs. having to pay Monotype or whoever a yearly sub with endless licensing issues.
- CharlesW 3y agoIf it were just a money-saving measure, I'd imagine they'd have continued using Inter with whatever complementary monospaced font they had been using. Vercel's motivation appears to be that, unlike other fonts, Geist was designed with "precision, clarity, and functionality at its core", which "enhances the visual experience of developers and designers", which in turn finally "empowers them to effectively communicate their ideas".
- csande17 3y agoEven if Inter wasn't a fit, and they really specifically needed an open-source font that looked like Helvetica (er, sorry, that drew "inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement") with a more distinguishable I/l/1 and a monospace version, IBM Plex is free.
- Jiocus 3y agoTo iterate on mikl's question: also nice, but I wonder why IBM did this.
- cratermoon 3y agoPlex at least riffs on IBMs earlier typography efforts with the classic Selectric typewriter balls, notably the double story g.
- hexasquid 3y agoAt last!
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