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Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Post by yougotwill »

nitinreddy88 wrote: post #10
roundcan7998 wrote: post #6

Created an account, to come tell you folk, just how much I love Monolisa. Have been using it every since they launched, in both my terminal, and my code editors. It’s lovely! editing to add: They even have PPP pricing! Which as someone living in India, I highly appreciate, since it puts a lovely piece of art within reach.

20k (30$) for font for someone living in India is too much to ask.

It looks like they do pricing parity for different countries. Being in South Africa it shows a 40% discount available.

Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Post by littlecranky67 »

roundcan7998 wrote: post #6

Created an account, to come tell you folk, just how much I love Monolisa. Have been using it every since they launched, in both my terminal, and my code editors. It’s lovely! editing to add: They even have PPP pricing! Which as someone living in India, I highly appreciate, since it puts a lovely piece of art within reach.

I'm in spain using DIGI (a romanian telco) - their geolocation puts me into romania and offer a 40% discount.

Anyway, still not going to pay 75€+ for a font.

Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Post by a96 »

cyphar wrote: post #8

I'm more of a bitmap font guy (at least, as long as my eyes continue to forgive me for it) but I'm always interested to see what other fonts there are around. It does look quite nice. I must admit when I ran across the second real paragraph from the main page, I couldn't help but only think more and more about how we will look back on marketing copy like this in a decade from now: AI assistants produce both code and…

I think a lot of people might be excited by a typeface or other text system that would highlight tells of LLM "tainted" text.

Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Post by microflash »

Looks interesting.

> The Licensee may not modify, translate, adapt, alter, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer, change or alter the embedding bits, the font name, legal notices contained in the font software, nor seek to discover the source code of the font data, convert into another font format, create bitmaps, add or subtract any glyphs, symbols or accents, or any other derivative works based on the electronic data in this product.

This is why I haven’t bought it. I like to subset fonts to reduce the size. Any font license that prohibits this just gets ignored by me, no matter how good it is.

Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Post by pmontra »

> MonoLisa ships as a variable font with two axes. Weight gives you every cut from Thin to Black in a single file — no megabytes per style. Grade fine-tunes typographic color by adjusting stroke thickness without changing glyph widths

If any web page designer reads this, weight 1 and grade -50 is what many web pages look like, or even thinner than that. Weight 300 and grade 0 are the lower boundary of readability IMO.

A free (as money) font with most of those properties is Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, both monospace and variable width. https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

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