Discussion

The Brief & The Process

keeganpoppen: i do think that the type designers did incredible work with monaspace… i used to be an Operator-exclusive kind of guy (rip hoefler x frere-jones), but i genuinely think they did enough to completely displace it from my font lexicon, which is no mean feat.

keeganpoppen: i do prefer neon and argon to the rest, though i see the place for all of them to exist

endunless: I do like these fonts, but DJR had this idea with the (excellent) Input family of fonts years ago:https://input.djr.com/A bit weird to not mention that.Unfortunately until editors start supporting this (and I’m not sure what would motivate them to), these remain great ideas only.

sheiyei: Input's method seems to be fundamentally very different to this. Monaspace keeps the grid intact and only changes the characters visually (situationally overlaps wide letters to neighbouring narrow characters' spaces). Input just pretends to be monospace in its aesthetics, I don't really understand what's supposed to be special with that.