source-serif VS urw-base35-fonts

Compare source-serif vs urw-base35-fonts and see what are their differences.

source-serif

Typeface for setting text in many sizes, weights, and languages. Designed to complement Source Sans. (by adobe-fonts)

urw-base35-fonts

Repo for URW++ base 35 font set (by ArtifexSoftware)
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source-serif urw-base35-fonts
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2,132 89
0.6% -
3.0 0.0
5 months ago about 1 year ago
CSS
SIL Open Font License 1.1 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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source-serif

Posts with mentions or reviews of source-serif. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.

urw-base35-fonts

Posts with mentions or reviews of urw-base35-fonts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
  • Advice on Open Source Fonts for PDF-Based Project
    3 projects | /r/typography | 27 Mar 2023
  • Modern Font Stacks
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023
    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.)

    —⁂—

    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`.

  • Font/Typeface License Question
    1 project | /r/fonts | 17 Sep 2022
    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.
  • For some reason , default GNOME pdf reader cannot display certain mathematical notations which Brave(Chrome too) can. Distro is Fedora 35.
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 9 Apr 2022
    You could try to download it from https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/tree/master/fonts
  • Use of urw-base35 fonts and is it safe to remove them?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 11 Oct 2021
    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?
  • Helvetica Now Variable
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2021
    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?

When comparing source-serif and urw-base35-fonts you can also consider the following projects:

plex - The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.

Google Fonts - Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts

source-code-pro - Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments

source-sans - Sans serif font family for user interface environments

modern-font-stacks - System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern operating system

FiraSans - Fira is a large Open Font typeface family licensed under OFL

fonts

literata - A contemporary serif typeface family for long-form reading