Post a font you recently discovered

https://blambot.com/products/longbow

Just found this nice blackletter font called longbow through another post on here. I really like it. Nice to have one with a hand written feel to it.

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8 Comments

a_person@piefed.social · 3 pts · 271d (2 replies)

I am not a font guy, I just discoveted Jetbrains Mono and now its my systemwide font on arch (btw) linux.

alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 271d (1 reply)

With ligatures!

kyber@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 271d

Yup! And all the european letters too.

IndigoGollum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 269d (2 replies)

I don't find new fonts often, but i went looking for some nice monospaced ones not long ago and found Toren Mono, Drafting* Mono, and Monaspace (Xenon).

Of the three Monaspace is my favorite because of how it handles very wide or narrow letters like MmWw, liIj. If a wide letter is next to a narrow one, the wide one takes up more space at the expense of the narrow one that would normally have a hard time filling the full width. It makes the font prettier and easier to read, while still being fixed width.

I also recently remembered Pelagiad when i saw it on the cover of Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit and wondered how he got the rights to publish a book in the similar Magic Cards font.

kyber@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 269d (1 reply)

Wow, these are great, thanks for the share man.

IndigoGollum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d

Happy to help. I think i found the first three after asking for fonts here.

jcorvera@quokk.au · 1 pts · 218d

Comic Shanns. Nostalgic and rather readable. Use it on my work computers and close to switching home to it.

Additionally, I am loving the heck out of Libertinus Sans and TG (TeX Gyre) Pagella

Shihali@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 271d

Not really a recent discovery, but I'm in the mood for serif fonts without too much contrast. Appli Mincho seems decent for Japanese in that regard.