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I think I just found my new favorite font. I'm absolutely addicted to grotesque sans-serif, I used to use Roboto everywhere, but now I'm currently using Cantarell (GNOME's default font, a humanist typeface) as my desktop font and as an overwrite font for every single website I open, but I might just start using Plex Sans and Plex Mono now. Thank god it's OFL.

I still find it fascinating that there are so many different typefaces with such subtle differences in them, but since I'm looking at characters in the screen the entire day, these characters better be beautiful and pleasing.

I'm not gonna lie, every time I swap fonts on my desktop I keep remembering that one scene from American Psycho [0]. Maybe I should touch some grass.

[0]: https://youtu.be/cISYzA36-ZY

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You'll love Linus Boman's take on it then [1]

If you love neo-grotesques, you can't do much better than Neue Haas Grotesk or Atlas Grotesk [2]. Both are by CommercialType, both cost a pretty penny, but both are absolutely amazing.

I fully agree with you about wanting beautiful and pleasing characters though. It's my gift to myself for being paperfree. If I'm going to read on screen instead of printed, I want the best possible experience. 32" 4K display, professional fonts, nice software for writing in etc.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKc54z5SsEs

[2]: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/atlas/atlas_grotesk

The best possible experience is 6-8k at 32", low DPI can go burn in hell.

Amen. It's a shame dell released that one 8K monitor and peaced out. It's still available but it's expensive as hell, and I could not for the life of me justify needing dual DP cables. But I'm constantly tempted...

Each time they release something like this it's got to require two inputs, is clunky, may have tearing problems under some platforms, and is discontinued not very long after due to lackluster sales. Remember they had a 5K monitor plagued with the same kind of trouble?

Given that most of the gear in the business world is laptop-shaped, requiring two DisplayPort cables is just not going to fly. What do you mean, "get that expensive USB-C to dual DisplayPort dongle from Sonnet"? I thought DP1.4 was perfectly capable of driving an 8K monitor over a single cable, heck, that's what my old Dell Precision 7520 laptop is supposed to be able to do.

"Atlas Typewriter, a companion monospaced family also in six weights" [1]

[1] https://commercialtype.com/news/atlas_grotesk_typewriter

Yep. Best of all, you can download trial versions of all of these to try them out.

Impressive. Very nice.

Let's see Paul Allen's font.

brb setting my editor font to "Silian Rail"

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