"""This wonderful font is free for personal and commercial use (however, you’re required to donate a small amount to use it for commercial purposes)."""
While scrolling down past this page, I was wondering when they would finally show the final font. Until the end, I thought that these were all design sketches.
The curious design aside, the bigger problem is legibility. For example, in the last example image (reading "a light one with dots and without") the horizontal lines of the H's are practically invisible, making it unnecessarily hard to even make out the word boundaries.
The latter is a nice lesson in how the brain reads text (starting with word recognition, then moving on to deciphering single words and word groups), but the fact that viewing this font makes me realize this process just shows how badly designed the font is. And I'm not referring to "bad design" as in "I don't like the style", I mean it's bad because it does not satisfactorily perform the function that it is designed for (which for text always is to communicate meaning).
I agree, the dots and lines inside the letters threw me off big time. Otherwise I think it's a very beautiful font. Could the author possibly make a version without the interior dots and lines??
When using this please have consideration for those with screens that have poor viewing angles. These are difficult enough to read with high contrast backgrounds on IPS LCDs.
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Clearly a purchase and not a donation. The font creator would need to declare that on his/her taxes.
Is there a reason for this?
The curious design aside, the bigger problem is legibility. For example, in the last example image (reading "a light one with dots and without") the horizontal lines of the H's are practically invisible, making it unnecessarily hard to even make out the word boundaries.
The latter is a nice lesson in how the brain reads text (starting with word recognition, then moving on to deciphering single words and word groups), but the fact that viewing this font makes me realize this process just shows how badly designed the font is. And I'm not referring to "bad design" as in "I don't like the style", I mean it's bad because it does not satisfactorily perform the function that it is designed for (which for text always is to communicate meaning).