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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

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Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

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Post by paulvnickerson »

6SixTy wrote: post #89
paulvnickerson wrote: post #50

why is the federal government using tax dollars to develop fonts?

$1M to the US Government is like dropping pennies, less than that actually. By the READMEs, this font is actually a modification to another font and more sleuthing revealed that the author actually worked on this in his spare time.

drop enough pennies here and there and it adds up

Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

#102

Post by smarx007 »

computator wrote: post #93
homebrewer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inter is the only libre typeface that has good coverage, and produces readable small text on terrible 80 DPI displays. I've tested probably hundreds of them.

But l and I (ell and eye) are identical in Inter. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=lllll%2... I never understood why a font designer would ever choose to do that. There should be an ironclad rule that different letters must look different.

You did not check my link and ss02 out, did you?

Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

#103

Post by dmschulman »

paulvnickerson wrote: post #50

why is the federal government using tax dollars to develop fonts?

They didn't develop a new font, they improved an existing font that's packaged inside a larger design library used for building government websites. Creating a standard that states, cities, municipalities, townships, etc can utilize for digital services improves access for all.

Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

#104

Post by 6SixTy »

paulvnickerson wrote: post #101
6SixTy wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1M to the US Government is like dropping pennies, less than that actually. By the READMEs, this font is actually a modification to another font and more sleuthing revealed that the author actually worked on this in his spare time.

drop enough pennies here and there and it adds up

That's a comical amount of pennies

Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

#105

Post by birksherty »

smarx007 wrote: post #102
computator wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But l and I (ell and eye) are identical in Inter. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=lllll%2... I never understood why a font designer would ever choose to do that. There should be an ironclad rule that different letters must look different.

You did not check my link and ss02 out, did you?

Then tell me where to download that ss02 and install on PC for docx file and set default in browser?
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