Fonts – Paolo Redaelli https://monodes.com/predaelli A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero Fri, 09 May 2025 17:01:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 91795679 What’s this Amiga font? https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/05/09/whats-this-amiga-font/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/05/09/whats-this-amiga-font/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 17:01:28 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13302 Does anyone know what’s this thick sans-serif Helvetica-like font used in late Amiga?

I found the pictures in Enigma Amiga Life; I know they’re very, very low-res.

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Primarium & Playwrite https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/09/22/primarium-playwrite/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/09/22/primarium-playwrite/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:45:50 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11826 I have always been fond of hand-written fonts.

I discovered Playwrite on Google Fonts. Wonderful dozens on national variations. https://fonts.google.com/?query=playwrite+&classification=Handwriting

Also https://primarium.info/handwriting-models

And especially the Italian “Corsivo tradizionale” that is “traditional cursive”.

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MD IO · Mass-Driver™ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/06/10/md-io-%c2%b7-mass-driver/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/06/10/md-io-%c2%b7-mass-driver/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:00:09 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11735

A contemporary monospaced typeface family designed for legibility, particularly at small sizes and on digital screens.

Source: MD IO · Mass-Driver™ a beautiful, yet a little pricey font

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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/03/24/atkinson-hyperlegible-font/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/03/24/atkinson-hyperlegible-font/#respond Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:47:01 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11520 I never say no to a new font. This is a nice Sans-serif font but frankly it doesn’t seem so “incredible”.

A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers

Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.  What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability.  We are making it free for anyone to use!

Source: Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute
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Still no ligatures https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/03/04/still-no-ligatures/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/03/04/still-no-ligatures/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:30:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11401

Black Box is a GTK4 Terminal App With a Unique Look – OMG! Ubuntu

Black Box is a GTK4 terminal emulator for Linux desktops. It boasts innovative UI features, 12 terminal themes, and is easy to install from Flathub.

Nice, but still, font ligatures support is missing as it requires quite a lot of work on VTE. I’m quite happy with Qterminal these days

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Programming fonts with ligatures https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/01/21/programming-fonts-with-ligatures/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/01/21/programming-fonts-with-ligatures/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:16:02 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11248 A recent fad in programming communities is monospaced programming fonts full of cool ligatures.

For example GitHub has 92 repositories marked as such; among them:

  • FiraCode Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
  • Iosevka Versatile typeface for code, from code.
  • JetBrainsMono JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
  • Monocraft A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface
  • maple-font Maple Mono: Open source monospace font with round corner, ligatures and Nerd-Font for IDE and command line.
  • victor-mono A free programming font with cursive italics and ligatures. Donations welcome ❤ See its show case on https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
  • PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/ this is particulary awesome, expecially for small size and its retro feeling; it costs 19€.
  • Lilex 🤘Open source programming font
  • and many others

I understand Fabrizio when he wrote

Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen you can not realize the work that is behind such a project.
I tried, and I try, in every way a sponsorship or funding to reduce the price of the license, my dream was to offer it for free, but I don’t found that and I have to sell the license at a price at least partially compensate for the effort involved realize PragmataPro.
To reduce the price now would be economic suicide for me and misconduct against those who have believed before you and have already paid the amount required.

Fabrizio Schiavi author of PragmataPro (source).

Luckly for us, less for him is the fact that there are so many good enogh fonts with ligatures. But the world is so big, I trust he’s getting good revenues from his other fonts.

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Iosevka programmer font https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/01/18/iosevka-programmer-font/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2024/01/18/iosevka-programmer-font/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:38:34 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11220 Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents.

It sports quite awesome statistics:

  • 6,080 Characters Covered
  • 38,323 Glyphs Included
  • 234 Languages Supported
  • 123 Character Variant Features
  • 19 Stylistic Set Features
  • 21 Ligation Sets

Well… WOW.

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Risque Font · 1001 Fonts https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/12/10/risque-font-%c2%b7-1001-fonts/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/12/10/risque-font-%c2%b7-1001-fonts/#respond Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:24:27 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=11010

 

Free for commercial use · Risque finds its inspiration from the title screen of the 1962 Looney Toons cartoon called “Martian through Georgia”. Originally an all Capitals refer

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Teko and Barlow Condensed fonts https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/03/31/teko-and-barlow-condensed-fonts/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/03/31/teko-and-barlow-condensed-fonts/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:50:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=10340 I’ve just read: 2035: solo macchine elettriche? L’Europa ci ripensa!!!

Nice fonts! They are Teko and Barlow Condensed and both are released under the Open Font License which is always nice.

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Virgil — The font that powers Excalidraw https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/24/virgil-the-font-that-powers-excalidraw/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/24/virgil-the-font-that-powers-excalidraw/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:04:37 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9874 You know I like handwrite-like fonts, so I like Virgil — The font that powers Excalidraw

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