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Pareto Front

198 points · 85 comments · binyu

  1. Aachen · · focus · HN ↗
    Misread the title and got excited about a Pareto font, that is, the best possible font (presumably: distinct l/I, O/0, scores within error margins of the top readability and reading speed scores, widely available, etc.)

    Maybe in vein but did anyone already figure this one out? The closest I got was PT sans, open-licensed commissioned by the Russian ministry for communication (I found it surprising that a country that doesn't use Latin script made the best font!), but it's not widely shipped so you need to figure out how to include font files whenever you want to use it

    1. airstrike · · focus · HN ↗
      Inter with optional open type features turned on?

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;

      1. Aachen · · focus · HN ↗
        I didn&#x27;t know fonts can have options. Another learning curve on how to enable that in Latex&#x2F;Html&#x2F;Libreoffice&#x2F;anywhere else I use fonts ^^&#x27;. But still helpful to know about!

        ss02 disambiguation seems to be the one I&#x27;d be wanting to turn on, with tnum for monospace numbers being a good option as well that I hadn&#x27;t even realised I wanted from a font!

        1. airstrike · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah, those features are awesome! Sadly support for them is quite lacking in applications...

          Tabular numbers are awesome!

          1. notpushkin · · focus · HN ↗
            I feel like there should be a GUI tool to bake in any alternates into the font itself.
            1. airstrike · · focus · HN ↗
              [delayed]
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