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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by kyber@sopuli.xyz to c/typography@lemmy.ca

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Just found this nice blackletter font called longbow through another post on here. I really like it. Nice to have one with a hand written feel to it.

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[–] a_person@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am not a font guy, I just discoveted Jetbrains Mono and now its my systemwide font on arch (btw) linux.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

With ligatures!

[–] kyber@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yup! And all the european letters too.

[–] IndigoGollum@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't find new fonts often, but i went looking for some nice monospaced ones not long ago and found Toren Mono, Drafting* Mono, and Monaspace (Xenon).

Of the three Monaspace is my favorite because of how it handles very wide or narrow letters like MmWw, liIj. If a wide letter is next to a narrow one, the wide one takes up more space at the expense of the narrow one that would normally have a hard time filling the full width. It makes the font prettier and easier to read, while still being fixed width.

I also recently remembered Pelagiad when i saw it on the cover of Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit and wondered how he got the rights to publish a book in the similar Magic Cards font.

[–] kyber@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, these are great, thanks for the share man.

[–] IndigoGollum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Happy to help. I think i found the first three after asking for fonts here.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Not really a recent discovery, but I'm in the mood for serif fonts without too much contrast. Appli Mincho seems decent for Japanese in that regard.