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Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by dutchCourage »

jorams wrote: post #66
dutchCourage wrote: post #46

It's the nicest monospace font I've seen in a while, and I'd love to try it out, but $75 is a rather hefty price for development use. I don't mean to diminish the work that's been done, but more... I wonder if you could sell twice as much by cutting the price in half. $75 prices out quite a lot of people.

For a paid font $75 for an unlimited lifetime license is not at all expensive. I suspect the difficulty isn't so much getting people to pay $75 for a font, but getting people to pay for a font in the first place. The font market is essentially split between free fonts and expensive fonts. The people willing to pay for fonts are not particularly price sensitive, because if they were they would just be using a free fon…

> The people willing to pay for fonts are not particularly price sensitive, because if they were they would just be using a free font.

Fair enough, there might not be as many people ready to pay for a font as I imagine.

As for the price, it's entirely to the discretion of the maker and it's impossible to determine what the value is for the customer, so I'm not judging that.

It does price out people from lower purchasing power countries and people who are short on cash (hey that's me). But as you mentioned, it's very possible that a lot of these people would rather use a free font.

I'll save this one for when I have more disposable income :)

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by kstrauser »

gjvc wrote: post #129
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just it tho. We never know why OP shared it. Did something change on the page? A new feature? Hardly anything has dates. Maybe it's just their own personal discovery of the day. (Then maybe they could just browse the previous posts if it's not news. Save us some of the repeated discussion points over and over.) You don't know if I've even seen it before. But I know from search it's not new. I know others might…

Clearly lots of people find it useful; just look at the number of comments and upvotes it gets. All you do is police the site, and it shows: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect You are clearly oblivious as to how off-putting your behaviour is to new contributions. Just think on that. I wish this site had a feature to ignore users. [In 20 hours this has garnered 308 points and 122 comments and you a…

What the…

Seriously, ChrisArchitect, that’s highly off-putting. I rehash things with my friends all the time. Very often there’s nothing new about those specific things, but the context they live in has developed and we enjoy discussing them in the new context.

For instance, since the last time Berkeley Mono was the subject, Monaspace was released. Now we can talk about how Berkeley Mono relates to the current space.

I beseech thee to knock it off. This isn’t Wikipedia and we don’t need deletionists gatekeeping what’s worth discussing. It seems a lot of people are enjoying the conversation. Let them.

Re: Berkeley Mono Typeface

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Post by inferiorhuman »

neilpanchal wrote: post #118
inferiorhuman wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw this, and the comment below asking why there are different versions of e.g. 0 and 7. Saw the variant picker on your site, and I can't help but wonder: Do you have any plans to add the different variants in as stylistic alternates (SALTn tables)? This is how FontFont encoded two styles of numbers and other various symbols into a single OpenType font. With FF Zwo I like some of the alternates but not others and t…

They already are part of stylistic sets. So, for example, if you download a combination of 0 and 7 (regardless of which one), there are ss01-ss06 stylistic sets that encode other options in it. The reason why we have a "font configurator" is because lot of terminals/IDEs/tools/OS, etc haven't got a full support for OpenType features. So we let users configure it as they like and it just works.

Oh that's good to know. Admittedly I didn't look too hard but I didn't see any indication that the salt tables were populated. Judging by the comments I may not be the only one.
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