Urw-base35-fonts Alternatives

urw-base35-fonts reviews and mentions

• 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.)

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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`.

• 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

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