It's not just free? Instead it's $75 for an individual "license" and they sell enterprise licenses? Seems quite out of line with the vibe they portray the font embodies
This is how the true UNIXen of yore were sold.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
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#92Fira Code and Caskaydia are my favorites.
Is this the recommendations sub-thread? Inconsolata is the best i've used.
Intel One Mono. Not extremely different from Berkeley Mono it looks like but lower x-height, higher line height, more space around letters, and a number of smallish differences (mostly in the lower case letters and numbers and round dots instead of square). Intel has the extra visible {} and non-continuous % while Berkeley Mono has the funky @.
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#93It's not just free? Instead it's $75 for an individual "license" and they sell enterprise licenses? Seems quite out of line with the vibe they portray the font embodies
Where does one even get the idea that Unix = free (as in beer)? In fact, licenses for the original UNIX distros from Bell Labs retailed for literally thousands of dollars at the time. Various Unix-likes have names like Free BSD for a reason.
I stand corrected, then, and have updated my comment accordingly
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh if you're here: Any plans on covering APL/Miscellaneous Technical?
Woahhh, I've never played around with APL before. Such an interesting language: https://tryapl.org/ I think most of the glyphs are straightforward, the ones that would take time are the greek symbols. Unable to commit at this time, we're already behind with Berkeley v2 release by 6 months! :-(
To be sure APL is a niche (BQN even more so), and I personally am unlikely to be a customer regardless (it looks worth $75, i just don't program enough) so no pressure but it is one of the oldest programming languages and if you want to talk golden era...
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downvote me for your life here, I don’t care. This sort of comment is why I have a love/hate relationship with HN. Love, because yesterday I learned some amazing stuff that I told my partner about in bed. Hate, because of the assumptions that so many people are so quick to jump to. You know nothing about this guy’s motivations. (His name’s Neil. I’ve spoken to him. He seems like a really solid dude. He probably has t…
Yup, lots of people here saying $75 is too much while they make multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, never once stopping to consider how much effort a product like this takes. The irony is palpable.
I think it’s a bit out of touch to suggest that even a third of the people on this site make more than $200k/yr.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neil, Berkeley Mono is plain gorgeous. I bought it after five minutes of looking at the trial. Everything made so much sense when I saw the inspirations you listed - Eurostile, OCR-B and DIN 1451 all have a special place in my heart. But what's more, your site in its entirety is a work of art, in form and function. So many details, from the one-click newsletter signup when logged in to the plain-English license intro…
Thank you! Website is going to get doubly refined soon. I’d like to develop a UI framework one day, but one that never ever changes in its core design. It just gets refined over time. I must say, it’s a real pleasure to design websites. Not just frontend, but database, all the Django stuff, domain models, I love the whole thing. The font needs work, especially Bold cut. I completely redesigned all glyphs from scratch…
A UI framework would be a real treat, no doubt about it. And I know what you mean — I've always done full stack too, and love it. People who are serious about frontends should do their own backends, to horribly butcher Alan Kay.
As for the samples - for what its worth, what did it for me were the sections _Box drawing characters_ and _Exceptional legibility_. Just the telephone directory told me enough to download the trial.
It pains me that I will never be able to get my employer to spring for a commercial license - it would be a treat to rewrite our internal API documentation "Machine MX-4000"-style.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very much agree. What's wrong with computer people that they won't spend money on tools?! Especially since they are made by people in their own industry. Machinists (aka metalworkers) wouldn't sneer at other machinists and refuse to purchase their tools because someone else in their own industry dared to charge someone money for it. But the very same people will happily work for an advertising company under the guise…
I agree with you on the general principle. That said, software is kind of an odd duck in that huge amounts of valuable code are just given away for free to whomever wants it. How much would you pay for a shell? A better ls command? A mailserver? All of those require considerable effort to create, and yet people have made wonderful implementations of each of those and said here ya go, have it, enjoy! I can understand…
> I can understand the skepticism against a paid font.
Me too! But that's not what upset me. What upset me was the assumption of deceit in the parent post.
It's like drive-by shootings here sometimes; people see a thing, they don't like it, and they assume that the person creating it therefore has bad motives. I've been on the receiving end, directly, and it stinks. It makes this place worse.
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#98Has anyone successfully turned this into a nerd font? I'd love to know it works before handing over my $75. Update: I tried the font patcher on the trial version, but it didn't work. The font patcher ran successfully, and I can see all the added glyphs in Font Book on my Mac, but the glyphs don't work in my terminal. Output from the font patcher is here: https://app.warp.dev/block/sWNVtsGQkYqvaa3HXa0eFN Further updat…
Idk about trial, but the full version has no issue with patching, try these instructions and see if it works: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1629396583983853764
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#99No CJK support? That's unfortunate, so far I've only found a single code font with CJK support (Code2000) and I'd really like a nicer one.
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#100There's a suspicious amount of comments posted at roughly the same time praising the font and claiming the price is worth it. These comments include "after a few trial days", which is unrealistic, because no sane person would go for "a few days" with swapped slashes and backslashes.