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New comment by neilpanchal in "You wouldn't steal a font"

neilpanchal — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:58:54 +0000

Agree, I need to work on the full greek glyphset.

New comment by neilpanchal in "You wouldn't steal a font"

neilpanchal — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:58:03 +0000

Yes, that's a typo. Need to redo the entire datasheet and possibly find a way to automate it using reportlab or some other PDF library. Right now, it is in InDesign and it is a pain to keep updating it.

New comment by neilpanchal in "You wouldn't steal a font"

neilpanchal — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:42:48 +0000

Cyrillic is not supported so Berkeley Mono might not be suitable for your application. Are you building a Web app (Webfonts) or a Desktop/Mobile app (App license)? Please email me.

New comment by neilpanchal in "You wouldn't steal a font"

neilpanchal — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:49:29 +0000

Hey, Berkeley Mono supports most Western European languages, can you tell me what's missing? I can add it. Btw, the tagline is about the aesthetics. :)

New comment by neilpanchal in "Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts"

neilpanchal — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:07:24 +0000

There is a ligatures explorer to see exactly how glyphs relevant to a particular programming language of interest would look like, with or without ligatures: https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono/ligatures

Cloud.gov Pricing

neilpanchal — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:25:18 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.gov/pricing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207083

Points: 2

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New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:44:08 +0000

They already are part of stylistic sets. So, for example, if you download a combination of 0 and 7 (regardless of which one), there are ss01-ss06 stylistic sets that encode other options in it.

The reason why we have a "font configurator" is because lot of terminals/IDEs/tools/OS, etc haven't got a full support for OpenType features. So we let users configure it as they like and it just works.

New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:36 +0000

Idk about trial, but the full version has no issue with patching, try these instructions and see if it works: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1629396583983853764

New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:55:56 +0000

I also write Z and z with a stroke. And then someone on Twitter suggested we should add it as an option. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it despite of writing it that way! It’s coming.

New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:53:52 +0000

Thank you! Website is going to get doubly refined soon. I’d like to develop a UI framework one day, but one that never ever changes in its core design. It just gets refined over time. I must say, it’s a real pleasure to design websites. Not just frontend, but database, all the Django stuff, domain models, I love the whole thing.

The font needs work, especially Bold cut. I completely redesigned all glyphs from scratch and trying to get to release it. It's been a learning experience. Also condensed version is coming with it. All upgrades will be free to existing customers.

Btw, I agree with OP about good samples. It also bothers me a little bit when I see huge zoomed in shots of typefaces: Good for grabbing attention, but bad functionally unless it’s a display typeface specifically for billboard/headline use. So I will go to town with samples in 12 point size. We have a few but clearly not enough.

New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:23:39 +0000

Woahhh, I've never played around with APL before. Such an interesting language: https://tryapl.org/

I think most of the glyphs are straightforward, the ones that would take time are the greek symbols. Unable to commit at this time, we're already behind with Berkeley v2 release by 6 months! :-(

New comment by neilpanchal in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

neilpanchal — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 19:50:36 +0000

Fair criticism about samples, launching new update and it'll have better samples. Also, you're welcome to download the trial—best way to see how it looks in your specific setup.

I don't agree with your take on flourishes (in better terms, artistry). Every typeface has it. The process of designing a typeface is full of subjectivity and artistry.

The ViewSource Affordance

neilpanchal — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:40:33 +0000

Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/right-click-view-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602067

Points: 6

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New comment by neilpanchal in "enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)"

neilpanchal — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:32:34 +0000

Huge fan of Enron branding, it was done by none other than Paul Rand: https://www.paulrand.design/work/Enron.html

New comment by neilpanchal in "Chart of Accounts for Startups"

neilpanchal — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:30:13 +0000

Yeah it's not interesting content, but I spent so much time organizing this—felt obligated to share it.

Chart of Accounts for Startups

neilpanchal — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/chart-of-accounts-for-startups-and-saas-companies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37530552

Points: 3

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Eternal Robustness

neilpanchal — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 21:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/eternal-robustness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460350

Points: 2

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New comment by neilpanchal in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

neilpanchal — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:56:22 +0000

https://neil.computer

Random hardware/software/typography/space/manufacturing topics.

New comment by neilpanchal in "Gordon Moore has died"

neilpanchal — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:39:07 +0000

RIP. As an ex-Intel employee, this one stings. He was a godly figure internally and even during Intel's deteriorating years, engineers and technologists looked up to him as a constant north star of inspiration and engineering culture. Hope his demise gives a long pause to Intel's leadership and bring back some of good parts of the engineering culture from the 80's and 90's.

New comment by neilpanchal in "Modern Mono"

neilpanchal — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:38:08 +0000

We wrote extensively about ligatures, pros and cons: https://berkeleygraphics.com/public-affairs/bulletins/BT-001...

Personally, I generally agree with you - ligatures add a layer of ambiguity. Toyed around with the idea of "precision ligatures", but it only works a subset of ligatures.

It's important to keep in mind that ligatures are at the presentation layer, i.e. when the glyphs are drawn. You can still copy and paste the text, underlying representation is still individual chars. Also, ligatures are optional, so why not; a lot of people love them.