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Re: The most expensive coding font for free?

#21
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You get your money back if they don't meet their fundraising goal.

Re: The most expensive coding font for free?

#23

4 years and over 200k dollars seems like quite a bit. I understand being meticulous, but this is a bit absurd.

That's less than $ 25,000 / year, or around $ 120 / day. I don't think you can find a decent designer for $ 120 / day.

Nor would he _want_ to hire anyone to design a monospaced font for four years.

Re: The most expensive coding font for free?

#25
I prefer the coding font Anonymous Pro (has nothing to do with the hacktivist group) - it's located here and it's for free.

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

Personally, PragmataPro looks too condensed for me. It is probably more "economical" to use condensed fonts, but to me, it is really not very readable.

Re: The most expensive coding font for free?

#30
I've been using one of the "Proggy" fonts from http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download for awhile now... I don't remember which one specifically, I think "Proggy Clean".

This one looks good too, and maybe it'd be better than Proggy or one of the others around, but I don't think it's $220,000 better.

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