Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
lmao, they are actually identical.
GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
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Re: GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
#12Wow that lowercase y is quite something.
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#13> Licensed under OFL (basically, use it on your site or in your app and credit GitHub—read the full license)
Is this common for F/OSS fonts? I don’t know that I’ve seen many fonts that require attribution.
TIL any the OFL (https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id...)
Re: GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
#14I’ve observed a lot of sport brands have been using similar fonts.
Examples:
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#15Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
Good point. I like the look of these fonts but upon noticing your point I decided I won't use them.
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#16I don't understand why they invest(or buy?) fonts?
Perhaps I'm misreading your question, are you asking why they invest in fonts? If so, the answer is that fonts are a major underpinning of how an organization or a product is presented to the world. To make an analogy that the hn crowd might understand, the value of a typeface for a design system is like the value a cryptographic primitive or a library like openssl to a functioning security system. Nobody (aside from…
Standards make sense but it how many san serif fonts do we really need as a species? It was someone’s job here to set out and reinvent the wheel, and that seems like a waste of effort to me.
Re: GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
#17I don't understand why they invest(or buy?) fonts?
Perhaps I'm misreading your question, are you asking why they invest in fonts? If so, the answer is that fonts are a major underpinning of how an organization or a product is presented to the world. To make an analogy that the hn crowd might understand, the value of a typeface for a design system is like the value a cryptographic primitive or a library like openssl to a functioning security system. Nobody (aside from…
Fine, but are there any good reasons to spend resources on fonts?
Maybe if they spent less resources on achievements, fonts, etc. and more on reliability they could improve their downtime, which seems to be happening more and more often.
Re: GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
#18Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
Good point. I like the look of these fonts but upon noticing your point I decided I won't use them.
l had to Iook very carefully to make sure you hadn't substituted the two Ietters. :)
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#19Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
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Re: GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
#20Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
Worse than look exactly alike, they are exactly the same. Pixel for pixel when I compare the examples on the site. Sigh.
At least they both don't look like the 1.
Someone's gonna lose a LOT of crypto over this.