| ▲ | Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)(typotheque.com) |
| 38 points by yurivish 15 hours ago | 15 comments |
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| ▲ | cornedor an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Capital I and lowercase L are identical, not ideal, but maybe not that much of a problem for the use cases of this font. |
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| ▲ | p4bl0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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/ |
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| ▲ | jdboyd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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? |
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| ▲ | qznc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't get it. When would I use Zed Text and when Zed Display? |
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| ▲ | Enpece an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The definition of Display fonts is quite loose. Generally speaking, display fonts are made to grab attention by incorporating some more extravagant visual features (think something like Papyrus) They are made for shorter texts that are often written in a bigger font. Again I talk about this in a very general way because it depends on the font and other factors. But usually this includes things like headings. So they would use slightly different proportions that wouldn't work that well at small sizes, but stand out more in bigger sizes compared to the "text" variant. So in this case you would use Zed Text for all your larger text blocks and Zed Display for headings or maybe emphasized words. But to be honest, since they are pretty close visually, you can get away with using Zed Text for everything imho. | |
| ▲ | smashmiek an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Display versions of typefaces are generally used for headings or larger type. Text versions are used for longer text, and are usually optimised for smaller type sizes and readability. |
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| ▲ | sph 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Zed Text, not affiliated with the Zed text editor. |
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| ▲ | mikae1 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something. | |
| ▲ | thewhitetulip 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop? | | |
| ▲ | linzhangrun 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches. | |
| ▲ | boobsbr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Java and Ruby were created in 1995. Lua in 1993. Python in 1991. C in 1972. Lisp in 1960. | | |
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| ▲ | maipen an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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… |
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| ▲ | brainwad an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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. |
