I can't figure this out from the website, does the text variant have tabular figures?
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
#42In a world where Fira Code, Hack, JetBrains Mono, and like a zillion others (of equal, if not greater, quality) are offered for free, this is obviously a pure marketing play and it's sad we live in a world where even fucking fonts are so heavily monetized.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#43Similar to Input Mono font, which is superior to Monolisa in pretty much any way I can think of, plus free. https://input.djr.com/
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#44Similar to Input Mono font, which is superior to Monolisa in pretty much any way I can think of, plus free. https://input.djr.com/
I find them quite different, to be honest. I would not call them similar at all apart from being in the same design space of fonts for displaying code.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#45I call all these new fonts monofonts, mono in the sense of monoculture. Aesthetics practically indistinguishable from each other. Give me one of the IBM Selectric fonts in a modern form and I'll be happy as a clam.
https://www.codingfont.com/ is a fun way to compare fonts side by side and see just how similar some of them really are. Also kind of fun to see if your favorite font makes it through a blind comparison bracket.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#46Title: "a typeface for developers"
> and now we're happy to expand the typeface with a new family called MonoLisa Text. The reasoning was to cover other use cases beyond coding with this proportional font.
Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text
I'm sure I'm missing the obvious, but it is purely for LLM output use cases as the website implies (in which case why isn't Claude approach of using a serif font a better strategy).
Please don't take my comments are negative. Just genuinely curious, which is why I'm asking.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#47Umm... Who would pay $149 to use a font? Maybe I'm not enough of a typography nerd, but I find the free choices (JetBrains Mono, Iosevka, Fira Code, ...) quite enough.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#48To everbody complaining about the huge price of $149. For a font pricing thats pretty normal.
Maybe coders aren't the usual targeting group but print media is paying plenty of cash for typo licenses.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#49Title: "a typeface for developers " > and now we're happy to expand the typeface with a new family called MonoLisa Text. The reasoning was to cover other use cases beyond coding with this proportional font. Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text I'm sure I'm missing the obvious, but it is purely for LLM output use cases as the website implies (in whic…
> Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text
When I get back to work, I’ll try it out on my markdown editor.
Re: Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
#50I got so used to how narrow Iosevka is that I think I'd find it challenging to find a replacement at this point. Any other typefaces that are on the narrower side?