Is it possible to get this for free? I know there’s a free option but I don’t understand what the limits are
Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
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Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#22Look nice but super expensive for the normal developer. Good luck with the monetization, hope you get some company customers.
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#23I'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 wonder if someone has started selling keyboards that are "perfect for prompting"
I don't know about such marketing copy, but keyboards with a "CoPilot key" are now standard, particularly on all Windows laptops, which is an even more egregious form of marketing.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#24Looks 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 e…
I asked around about this particular term. It seems it's strict like that because looser wording would allow resales in certain parts of the world.
That said, I see no problem in subsetting or customizing the font especially in personal context. The website even provides tooling for this purpose so it's definitely within the license since you are literally creating your own custom version on the fly.
I hope this clarifies why it seems to be a standard clause for fonts.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#25Is it possible to get this for free? I know there’s a free option but I don’t understand what the limits are
The free trial version has a couple of fixed weights to try. It's missing all the advanced features (variable weight etc.) but it's enough to get an impression and to use it on a daily basis to see if you like it.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#26Looks decent but $250 AUD for a font? Even for local and personal use? That's... a lot. I was thinking if it is paid and it was around $25 I'd consider it, then I saw the price!
Yeah, I've read the entire website, but I still don't understand how a font for programming can be worth that much.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#27Seems there's no way to disable the Also, as it's so finely adjustable, would love if they'd offer some variants for dot and comma, to increase their size, because that's my number one problem with fonts since age 45.
Can you open an issue at https://github.com/MonoLisaFont/feedback/issues ? Maybe that's something we missed while restructuring ligatures for customizability.
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#29Looks decent but $250 AUD for a font? Even for local and personal use? That's... a lot. I was thinking if it is paid and it was around $25 I'd consider it, then I saw the price!
Yeah, I've read the entire website, but I still don't understand how a font for programming can be worth that much.
It's something you'll be looking at for perhaps 8 hours a day for years. If you actually use it, a font is easily worth that much, even disregarding its potential use in a commercial product.
Of course, like open source software, free fonts do their best to undercut the market for individual professionals to make a living, but creating fonts isn't free.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#30I have used MonoLisa for a few years now as my terminal and editor font and I absolutely love it. It was a fair bit cheaper when I bought it (80 Euro IIRC), but was well-worth it!