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

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Post by abcd_f »

microflash wrote: post #18

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 e…

Yeah, sounds like you can't even screenshot it.

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

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Post by abcd_f »

kwanbix wrote: post #63
holografix wrote: post #62

Classic marketing pricing strategy. Suddenly what has been seen as cheap is now given airs of luxury, exclusivity and craftsmanship. If you are really serious about your work… and you are, aren’t you? Then $150 is nothing, it’s a reflection on how serious you are. An artist needs great tools… etc etc

There are artist in 3rd world countries that make that in a month.

Then they aren't the target audience of this particular Rolex.

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

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Post by endymion-light »

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…

That's a bit of a false comparison - does this font significantly improve your quality of life comparably to a cheaper/open source font? Is this font really that much better than Jetbrains mono?

Why not pay $10,000 for a font if you are spending 8 hours a day looking at text? Probably because that's a obscene price to pay for a font.

I think the problem is that competition in this area is fierce, so as soon as I see a font like this with such an expensive personal use license - my first thought is - is this really going to be a unique experience compared to the quality of open source fonts?

Yes - fonts arent free - and obviously they're going for a market that will want to spend $250 on a personal font - but if so, I don't think the marketing works for achieving this

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

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Post by neonstatic »

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/Windows_key

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

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Post by conception »

pdpi wrote: post #69
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".

Cmd and Ctrl being separate keys is legitimately one of the things that keeps me on macOS.

Cmd and ctl are separate on Windows as well. Option is the Windows key.

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

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Post by groos »

mjmsmith wrote: post #64
groos wrote: post #20

I 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.

You might like Pitch: https://klim.co.nz/fonts/pitch/

Nice but pricey with a restrictive license.
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