Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024) (typotheque.com)

Zed Text, not affiliated with the Zed text editor.

This looks like a cool typeface in how much it can vary itself, but the price feels extremely expensive, and I don't like having to keep track of which of my library of typefaces are allowed to be used on which projects based on which license I bothered to buy for that typeface. Saying that I want to load the font onto a video server raises the price for a single variant to $1500ish, and there is no clarity on what license you need for web videos. Does that count as a movie license, or a TV license, or a web site license?

This made me think of Recursive Sans and Recursive Mono, two fonts which are also very malleable with multiple settings, but also open source.

https://www.recursive.design/

I don't get it. When would I use Zed Text and when Zed Display?

Capital I and lowercase L are identical, not ideal, but maybe not that much of a problem for the use cases of this font.

Is it just me, or is the lower-case s too tall? It sticks out like a sore thumb in the paragraphs, clearly taller than other x-height letters like e, o or r.

I like it actually, i wouldn’t mind paying for fonts or icons if they were double digit priced.

I know some startups that love burning their money are the target audience, but still…

I would pay $8 for this

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Looks quite nice except the lowercase s is too tall.

I though Adobe's font pricing was extreme... While I do appreciate the effort it takes to make a good typeface, this just seems a bit excessive compared to even other commercial alternative packages.