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

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Post by piskov »

efficax wrote: post #40

$149 for a font for personal computer use is kind of steep! I would pay $20 for this, but the value has to be pretty high to pay $149 when there's a huge selection of free fonts on nerdfonts.com, of which many are pretty great. Like what does this font really offer that makes it so pricey?

I bought Operator Mono circa 2020 for even more — still rocking it today. Seems like a no big deal for a thing you keep looking at for many hours every day.

kiliman/operator-mono-lig on github patches it to support ligatures. And I wish Hoefler guys added support for more languages

Video and some code screenshots: https://typography.com/blog/introducing-operator

Character set: https://typography.com/fonts/operator/overview

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

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Post by warpspin »

bebraw wrote: post #27
warpspin wrote: post #15

Seems 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.

Saw there's an issue already about the <= ligature. Will open a second issue with feature request for bigger dots.

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

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Post by bayesnet »

pmontra wrote: post #19

> 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…

Atkinson Hyperlegible is an incredible font family! I read much faster and strain much less when I use it. The Braille Institute licenses it under SIL and includes the Glyphs 3 source files used to build it with the download too which is very cool.

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

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Post by AlotOfReading »

subbz wrote: post #48

To 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.

Commercial usage is almost always significantly more expensive than retail. Software is the same way. I don't think it's common for personal use fonts to charge that much though.

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

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Post by broken-kebab »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #33
fluoridation wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 I mean, what are you comparing against? Rendering text in the null font? Sure, if that's really all you have then I guess spend $250 on an actual font, but even VGA is perfectly serviceable for a lot of tasks, and I'm not sure this font is $250 better than VGA, let alone something like De…

> I mean, what are you comparing against? Rendering text in the null font? No, I'm comparing against "whatever the default is". It's the same with chairs or beds. You can get "something to sit on" or "something to lay on" for $0 or close to it. But I will gladly pay a premium for the same reason - I spend 8+ hours a day in a chair, and 8+ hours a day in bed, so I don't even blink at paying any price to improve my dai…

The comparison doesn't add up, frankly. There are number of free fonts which work awesome for coding. In your terms, it's like I have an excellent chair already, not just "something to sit on".

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

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Post by prokopton »

efficax wrote: post #40

$149 for a font for personal computer use is kind of steep! I would pay $20 for this, but the value has to be pretty high to pay $149 when there's a huge selection of free fonts on nerdfonts.com, of which many are pretty great. Like what does this font really offer that makes it so pricey?

I bought the first version for far less. I couldn’t believe how much they wanted this time around.

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

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Post by jcheng »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #36
neonstatic wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "Windows laptop special key" is a bit of a meme. Microsoft keeps changing it every few years to the new hot thing and it never catches on. It feels like "we have Command key at home".

I have never seen a Windows laptop with the right ctrl key, or any normal key, replaced by a special key before CoPilot. I have six Windows laptops spread over 20 years and all of them before my most recent one have normal keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key is all I can think of, but that was introduced in 1994...

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

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Post by kristianp »

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've taken recently to running bitmap Terminus (not the ttf) in my terminals. I find the lack of blurred edges to be extremely refreshing. My laptop has a pixel density of about 162 ppi, so normal fonts, especially in chrome on linux don't make me happy.

Do you recommend any specific bitmap coding fonts?

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