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The most expensive coding font for free?
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Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#243% in Italian taxes? That kind of sucks. He needs an accountant to give advice about (legally) reducing the tax burden to something more reasonable.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#3If the 800 days are work days this means 4 years of work. ~200000 dollars really is not much for this time frame - you could even call it a bargain :) Anyway, I think I won't donate since I feel like I might lose the money when the goal is not reached (I don't really want a discount on the license fee).
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#4If the 800 days are work days this means 4 years of work. ~200000 dollars really is not much for this time frame - you could even call it a bargain :) Anyway, I think I won't donate since I feel like I might lose the money when the goal is not reached (I don't really want a discount on the license fee).
Yeah, I don't gamble. I'm willing to commit to kickstarter because I'll get my money back if the thing falls through.
But whenever they say my money will go towards a discount (or a charity) if the deal fails, I never go for it.
I'm not sure I've ever seen one succeed in that situation, actually.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#5The font looks good. But does it really solve a problem most people need solved? I don't remember last time I though "Hmm, if only I had a better font, I would work so much faster/better...". I did think that when using Linux 10 years ago when my fonts were blurry and fuzzy but not now.
Another way to put it, even if that font was available for free now I don't know I'd bother installing it just because ... there is the step of installing it. I would just rather pick a font from my default OS font choices.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#6There are just so many wonderful monospace fonts already out there that either come with your OS (Monaco, Consolas, Ubuntu Mono) or are free that I don't know why I should bother.
People still pay for fonts instead of downloading cheap knockoffs because of ligatures, a wide amount of characters and meticulous kerning. All things that a monospaced font doesn't need.
The one thing this font seems to add is that it is supposed to look good without font smoothing. But then, why would anyone care about that in a world where we always render fonts with anti-aliasing anyway?
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#74 years and over 200k dollars seems like quite a bit. I understand being meticulous, but this is a bit absurd.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#843% in Italian taxes? That kind of sucks. He needs an accountant to give advice about (legally) reducing the tax burden to something more reasonable.
In the US, I think a 220k income would be taxed at ~40% state + federal. And yes, that does suck.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#9If the 800 days are work days this means 4 years of work. ~200000 dollars really is not much for this time frame - you could even call it a bargain :) Anyway, I think I won't donate since I feel like I might lose the money when the goal is not reached (I don't really want a discount on the license fee).
Yeah, I don't gamble. I'm willing to commit to kickstarter because I'll get my money back if the thing falls through. But whenever they say my money will go towards a discount (or a charity) if the deal fails, I never go for it. I'm not sure I've ever seen one succeed in that situation, actually.
What? You get your money back with Kickstarter? I've never heard of that... I'm pretty sure I've lost a few hundred bucks on failed kick-starters...
I mean, they meet the goal, but the person never delivers.
Re: The most expensive coding font for free?
#1043% in Italian taxes? That kind of sucks. He needs an accountant to give advice about (legally) reducing the tax burden to something more reasonable.
In the US, I think a 220k income would be taxed at ~40% state + federal. And yes, that does suck.
In the UK someone would start a company, and be an employee of that company with a wage, and make themselves the only shareholder, and then an accountant would say "pay yourself some dividends now".
At least that's what people used to do, but I guess it's been stopped now.