Niche Nate: I am fascinated by (and often easily annoyed by) #fonts
- For digital, I prefer sans-serif fonts (serif is OK on printed materials)
- Even with sans-serif fonts, I prefer a "serif I" — I keep a document of "serif I" fonts I come across (screenshot)
- I am constantly taking notes — #ObsidianMD — both personal & professional, both for myself & for others, and I want them to be easily legible. I don't like confusion between a "capital I," a "lowercase l," and a "number 1" 😑
IBM Plex Sans is a "surprisingly" good font (for a company brand font). My primary complaint here is the lowercase "g" — I prefer the simple style with the downstroke to the left, not the "doubled-loop" lowercase "g"
Noto Sans is another good, thorough font family. I often come back to this one after "tiring" of Readex Pro. I'd prefer not to have the capital J that drops below the line, and I prefer the roundedness of Readex.
My favorite writing font is iA Writer Quattro. It’s draft font, not for final output, and has plenty of air around the punctuation like a mono font, making it easy to spot typos. It has all the special characters you mention, but doesn’t have a serif capital i. But iirc, iA Writer Duo does.
You might like Input Sans (free only for personal use). If you click on “Customize your download,” you can choose from alternate character styles and other variables. https://input.djr.com/download/
@EpiphanicSynchronicity Yes, I've downloaded both of those. 🙂 For text, I prefer to avoid a monospace font, keeping that only for true code.
One of my current favorite fonts that checks a lot of my preference boxes is Readex Pro — https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Readex+Pro/about
Neither iA Writer Quattro nor Input Sans is a monospace font. iA Writer Quattro has four widths so is nearly proportional, and Input Sans is fully proportional.
They just borrow some of the virtues of monospace fonts to facilitate writing and editing, but without the squashed letter forms and uneven spacing between characters you get with monospace.
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