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Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by neilpanchal »

abeyer wrote: post #53

The licensing is unclear/vague/contradictory... I'm totally confused what the 'developer' license actually means when it says you can use it for "personal use in professional context, but not commercial." And how is a subscription for a print product handled? Do I have to burn my printed materials if I don't renew a subscription? Font vendors seem to _love_ coming up with weird snowflake licensing schemes rather than…

I actually wanted to make it simpler. Separating professional use (this is how Input Mono font does it) and commercial use allows developers to use fonts for their daily work, but the machine belongs to their employer and the work they do is for their employer; while also being able to provide a separate Commercial license for companies and businesses.

There are no page view limits for websites (no trackers), installation limits , epub/ebook limits, etc. Basically it is along the lines of FontSpring's worry free license and I think its even better.

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by cflewis »

leetrout wrote: post #9

I would love to see ligatures incorporated but I understand that is a polarizing opinion. I love the little niceties of rendering arrows which are used all over the place these days.

Yeah, I'm one of those people who has spent so long with ligatures that not having them is a deal breaker for me.

I use PragmataPro and have done for many years. It's pretty similar to this but has lots of nice ligatures.

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by qbasic_forever »

humanistbot wrote: post #27

> Berkeley Mono wears a UNIX T-shirt and aspires to be etched on control panels in black synthetic lacquer. It is Adrian Frutiger visits Bell Labs. It is Gene Kranz's command. It operates with calibrated precision and has a datasheet. It costs $75 for an individual license, not really in the spirit of UNIX

UNIX was an internal and then commercial product of ATT bell labs (and later Novell). You're misconstruing it with the FOSS movement.

UNIX was created for ATT to sell more telephone service, and then later sold and licensed to other companies to likewise improve their internal computer usage. UNIX was not created to be zero cost. Apparently a commercial license for UNIX cost $20k at the time (or $150 for universities/educational institutions).

edit: IMHO $75 one time is a fair price for a premium font. Designers regularly pay $300 or more for typefaces they use in their work. There are monthly subscriptions to font foundries that cost more too.

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by woodruffw »

humanistbot wrote: post #27

> Berkeley Mono wears a UNIX T-shirt and aspires to be etched on control panels in black synthetic lacquer. It is Adrian Frutiger visits Bell Labs. It is Gene Kranz's command. It operates with calibrated precision and has a datasheet. It costs $75 for an individual license, not really in the spirit of UNIX

One of the strongest indicators that FOSS has eaten the world is that we've all forgotten that UNIX licenses used to be thousands of dollars.

And that's before you even bought the compiler license!

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by leetrout »

The author is in this thread... a corp license is $30 / year and a personal license is $75 forever.

Maybe we could do a one time HN group buy @ $30 forever just this one time? Say a minimum of 25 people agree?

Re: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by tuccinator »

neilpanchal wrote: post #40
cschmidt wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd second the vote for some "testing" fonts. At the very least, could you include some screenshots of larger chunks of code, with {} etc? I can't really tell how this will look on a screen full of code.

Here is some Python, but no {}: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/#b... I'll plan for a nice page with various languages and full page screenshots. Edit: Fixed link, thanks.

Please include screenshots from both Windows and MacOS.
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