Comment by smcleod
11 hours ago
Looks decent but $250 AUD for a font? Even for local and personal use? That's... a lot. I was thinking if it is paid and it was around $25 I'd consider it, then I saw the price!
11 hours ago
Looks decent but $250 AUD for a font? Even for local and personal use? That's... a lot. I was thinking if it is paid and it was around $25 I'd consider it, then I saw the price!
Yeah, I've read the entire website, but I still don't understand how a font for programming can be worth that much.
It's something you'll be looking at for perhaps 8 hours a day for years. If you actually use it, a font is easily worth that much, even disregarding its potential use in a commercial product.
Of course, like open source software, free fonts do their best to undercut the market for individual professionals to make a living, but creating fonts isn't free.
JetBrains Mono does make it very hard to justify spending anything more than nothing on a good font though.
I can't figure out why this font is better than DejaVu Mono, or Monaco (mac). They all look basically the same to me. I actually would love someone to explain what the difference/improvement is, in other parts of life I know subtle changes add up.
>It's something you'll be looking at for perhaps 8 hours a day for years. If you actually use it, a font is easily worth that much
I mean, what are you comparing against? Rendering text in the null font? Sure, if that's really all you have then I guess spend $250 on an actual font, but even VGA is perfectly serviceable for a lot of tasks, and I'm not sure this font is $250 better than VGA, let alone something like DejaVu or what have you.
>creating fonts isn't free
At this point we should ask if it was necessary to create another font in the first place.
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