modern-font-stacks
urw-base35-fonts
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modern-font-stacks
- System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
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Modern Font Stacks
Someone filed an issue already https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks/issues/1
urw-base35-fonts
- Advice on Open Source Fonts for PDF-Based Project
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Modern Font Stacks
https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks explains each stack and which fonts are expected to be used where, with screenshots. This information makes it (mildly bizarrely) generally more useful than https://modernfontstacks.com/.
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System UI: risky, it’s a trap, there’s basically no legitimate scenario for these semantics on the public web. See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658 (skim through a bit, I’ve got a comment near the end too).
Monospace Slab Serif: every one of the fonts named here is a bad font:
(a) Nimbus Mono PS mangles things like the two-column `fi`, ligating them to a single-column `fi`. See https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/issues/3....
(b) Courier New is unreasonably thin. Its 400 is more like a 250, and painful to read in many common configurations. Just never use it.
(c) Cutive Mono apparently copied Courier New’s known-awful thinness!?
Monospace Code: seriously, just go `monospace, monospace` these days. Firefox 98 on Windows was the last browser where this wasn’t at least perfectly adequate. (The doubling is to work around the stupid probably-13px font size misfeature that I’d like to try to convince browser makers to ditch, but haven’t tried yet.)
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This is much better-thought out than most sets of suggestions, but I’d honestly still suggest dropping nuance in most cases, and just using `serif`, `sans-serif` or `monospace, monospace`.
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Font/Typeface License Question
I'm working on a Minecraft mod, in which will have an image with text from a font from this repository. The mod itself is for a preexisting modpack, which falls under commercial usage and is likely not GPLv3 compatible.
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For some reason , default GNOME pdf reader cannot display certain mathematical notations which Brave(Chrome too) can. Distro is Fedora 35.
You could try to download it from https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/tree/master/fonts
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Use of urw-base35 fonts and is it safe to remove them?
On the github page it is mentioned that it is required by Adobe Postscript(c) Language Level 2, what is the actual use of these fonts and will they brake the system if removed?
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Helvetica Now Variable
If you want to use Helvetica, you can use the FOSS Nimbus Sans. It's literally a reimplementation of PostScript Helvetica.
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts
What are some alternatives?
homecomputer-fonts - Variable fonts based on the Commodore 64 and Amiga fonts.
source-serif - Typeface for setting text in many sizes, weights, and languages. Designed to complement Source Sans.
Fast-Font - This font provides faster reading through facilitating the reading process by guiding the eyes through text with artificial fixation points.
Google Fonts - Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
csswg-drafts - CSS Working Group Editor Drafts
source-code-pro - Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
beautiful-web-type - In-depth guide to the best open-source typefaces: https://beautifulwebtype.com
FiraSans - Fira is a large Open Font typeface family licensed under OFL
rilu - It's so good, it doesn't need a tagline.
plex - The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
chiron-sung-hk - 昭源宋體：現代筆形風格，平衡標準字形和印刷體慣用筆形的免費開源宋體字型