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> I'm generally pretty supportive of new typefaces I guess I am in the abstract, but... no, I guess I'm more "bewildered" by new typefaces. Especially mono fo
by ajross 3y ago
> I'm generally pretty supportive of new typefaces
I guess I am in the abstract, but... no, I guess I'm more "bewildered" by new typefaces. Especially mono fonts targetted at source code display.
I mean, this world just doesn't have elaborate requirements. And it was solved, like, dead-on-done-to-perfection with the open source release of Bitstream Vera two decades ago. I haven't wanted a new font since. Frankly I can barely tell the difference between most of them (not this one though -- yikes, that cursive thing is weird). I mean, why?
Why not spend your font design hours making something for general text that people might notice. Hackers are poor discriminators and frankly very well served already.