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dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

I just wanted to let you know that I have updated Alma Mono based on feedback from this thread. Lots of fixes and reworked @-sign and $-sign e t c.

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

It's a leap of faith, most definitely, and maybe a bit shady when viewed from an outsiders perspective. Just give money to a stranger? Yes. Shady indeed, I agree.

But then again, if you chose to pay for it, which is your choice - you could download it for free - you actually get a font in five weights that has taken me a lot of time to craft.

It's your choice. But you can trust me. It's the Internet - people wouldn't lie on the internet, no?

And - I'll be the first to agree that this project needs more credibility and/or third-party involvement. I've already gotten the ball rolling on some partnerships with third parties for the future. Getting Hacker News'd wasn't even on my horizon. Superexciting! I was expecting friends and family to support this, like on my other design/charity project that I mention and link to on the about page.

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

Thanks, I'll do that right away!

I use Jekyll that generates a static html site. The only third party stuff I have on that page is a MailChimp-widget. So, I'll wait and see what Google webmaster tools will tell me.

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

No, really? Shit. The only fish I want is Swedish fish. I need to investigate that, can't really see what that would be...

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

I totally agree to that! Never really thought this educational experiment would be featured on HN. It has kinda blown up! I'm glad you took a gander though!

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

That's strange! I'll take a look, I know I designed that character! Thanks for the heads up!

dafeldon Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of charities

Thanks for the feedback!

It wasn't designed for code. It was more a educational project for me to learn interpolation to "easily" create several weights of the font based on two weights. At the same time I was looking for ways to help out in any way I could with the ongoing situation re refugees here in Europe.

The "code" thing I thought was a bonus, and you're totally right. It might not work that well for code and it was never intended to compete with fonts that are intended to be used for code.

Again, I'm super grateful for you feedback and will take a look at the examples of strange looking glyphs that you pointed out. Thanks a million!