Tell me about your favorite fonts!

[newbold]

I’m going to overhaul the way theming works on profile pages as I work toward the goal of unified themes between profile pages, /now pages, and weblogs. One nice thing about what I’m planning is a modular approach that handles layout, color, and typography separately. I’m really excited to work on it soon.

On the topic of typography, I’d love to get the community’s input on typefaces that you might like to see available on omg.lol. I’ve purchased a bunch over the past couple of years (including some really nice ones from https://www.futurefonts.xyz, many of which have licenses that would allow us to use them on omg.lol), though they haven’t yet been folded into omg.lol because I haven’t had a chance to mature our theming setup and related UI to the point where font selection is part of the process.

In any case, I want to continue investing in beautiful typography for our fun little corner of the web. If there’s a font that you’d love to use on your profile page or weblog, please suggest it here! Once we have a decent list going, I can start researching licensing, budget, etc. and we can then see how things look and prioritize from there.

[maique]

Atkinson Hyperlegible, Ubuntu, Monoid 🙂 I'll surely think of others. Thanks.

[Mar0xy]

Raleway, Jetbrains Mono, Mona Sans

[newbold]

These are the fonts that I've already purchased from Future Fonts, in case you’re curious. Haven't confirmed licensing details on all of the ones that could be used on our site yet, but I'll do that at some point. Many of these are fonts more suited for headings but I think some could be a lot of fun to use.

• Kyrios v0.2
• MD IO v0.5
• Henrietta v0.5
• Mayonnaise v1.0
• Mint Grotesk Display v1.3
• Wildberry v1.0
• Ampersandist v0.2
• MD Nichrome v1.0
• Token v0.7
• Konsole v1.1
• Tatras v0.1
• Gooper Deck v0.7
• LC Pukará v0.1
• Ohno Blazeface Italic v1.0
• Coniferous v1.0
• Boxout v0.2
• Henk Work v0.1
• Goiters v0.2

I also picked up Berkeley Mono earlier after @plttn mentioned it and I instantly fell in love. 😄

[traeblain]

I'll second Boxout. Would like a nice narrow grotesque font.

[newbold]

The amazing thing about Boxout is all of the weights!

[newbold]

[sarajw]

I've already pulled in Karla from Google Fonts, and I like that Henrietta you've got (because Souvenir).

I like IBM Plex Mono for monospaced stuff :)

I'd love to see all those ones you've already got available as fonts more natively!

[zioibi]

Perhaps you’d consider adding in the iA Writer suite: Mono, Duo, & Quattro. They’re available (in various file types), officially and free, via https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/

[byemc]

I am a stan for Rubik (google fonts i think)

[nyakase]

i was expecting you to say Terminus (i don't know how well it would work though)

[byemc]

never let them know your next move

[freddy-m]

Goudy Old Style, Accademia, Recoleta Semi Bold, Morion

[lxjv]

i would like Mona / Hubot Sans and Cousine!

[Scotsguy]

Comfortaa <3
(Open Font License)

[jasonburk]

• Avenir Next
• Aller Display
• Dosis
• CoreHumanistSans
• IBM Plex Mono
• JetBrains Mono
• Qlassik
• DDC Hardware

[lxjv]

Merkury: https://radimpesko.com/fonts/merkury

[lxjv]

mmmmm

[mergesort]

There are a ton of great fonts here, and personally I'd be interested in seeing Source Code Pro added for code-looking things!

[voclain]

I really like the fonts you got from Future Fonts. If you include them, I can totally see myself using Mayonnaise and MD IO.

I also reccomend National Park Typeface , Germania One, and Metal Mania . They're all free to use.

[dpatterbee]

My long time favourite monospace font is definitely Iosevka.

[benyafai]

Ooooh nice

[george-probably]

Nothing really to add except for the fact I'm disappointed that no one has said either Papyrus or Comic Sans.

[lxjv]

/ban george-probably

[george-probably]

No mere mortal can contain my typeface-based powers!

[benyafai]

Fira Code
Jetbrains Mono

Fonts with ligatures 🤤

[BinaryDigitCodes]

I'm a sucker for any mono font really! I love the square retro-ness of them all. Example: https://fonts.google.com/?query=mono

[trolliant]

I like Fredoka/Fredoka One :) https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fredoka

[benyafai]

Ooh, Fredoka Bold 700 is chunky, I like it

[bixfrankonis]

I'd be interested to play with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (seen via).

Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!

[taurean]

If you're open to typefaces that cost money, I'm a big fan of the work from Klim. I'd especially love to see support for Tiempos or Söhne. I also recently came across FontShare which is a great resource of free typefaces (even for commercial instances).

[newbold]

I am 100% open to purchasing fonts (they’re an investment! At least that’s what I’ll tell my wife lol) but I do need to be careful about licensing terms. I don’t really have any kind of solid process for tracking pageviews or related usage metrics, and I’m not sure if I want to spend a lot of time developing that (when there are so many other fun and awesome things that I want to work on). So more permissive licenses with unmetered usage are going to work best. I don’t blame Klim for their approach and holy moly those fonts are gorgeous. Just thinking out loud here about licensing, so I’ll give it some more thought, but as of now I can see myself steering clear of the per-user/per-bucket-of-pageviews licensing model just to keep my sanity intact.

[taurean]

Yeah, that totally makes sense. Given their size, they might be able to work something out with you maybe based on user-size or something? Idk, I could see why you wouldn't want to touch that 😅. I wish the standard for font licensing wasn't so complicated.

[newbold]

I didn’t even think of asking them about some kind of more straightforward licensing. Doesn’t hurt to try! I’ll give it a try this weekend.

[taurean]

There should also probably be a typeface to help with Dyslexia: https://opendyslexic.org

[byemc]

This was a bad attempt at [replying by email](https://bye.paste.lol/longemail.md). Sorry!

[byemc]

i clearly have no idea how to reply by email. sorry about that!

[bradsiefert]

• Inter (forgive me for being basic)
• Benton Sans
• Tiempos
• Fira Code
• Equity Text and Concourse from MB Type

[newbold]

I love Inter!

[RickCogley]

The M+ fonts are good for Japanese and look good in English too. https://mplusfonts.github.io

[lxjv]

i love this site https://mplusfonts.github.io/images/pao-yes1.svg

[blakewatson]

I do love MB Type, but I was just reading over the license and I don't think it could be used for omg.lol profiles/webpages.

[ghost]

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Josefin+Sans
recently discovered this font looks pretty nice

[RickCogley]

Another one that's a well designed editor font is Pragmata Pro. It's decidedly a pay-for font, so I'm not sure how it would work in a system like omg.lol, but it's good stuff.

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

[newbold]

This one looks fascinating! Will look into the licensing and see if we can make it work. 👍

[blakewatson]

There are some quality free choices from The League of Movable Type. https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

[george-probably]

I just remembered that Trebuchet exists, I used the font in everything when I was younger