It's too grotesk. I think Apple accidentally set everyone off on the "search for the perfect sans font" but neither this nor the new Discord font is anywhere near as nice as San Francisco.<p>If you want a clean sans font, I'd highly recommend Plex sans: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans" rel="nofollow">https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans</a><p>Very straightforward, highly legible at all weights, normal-human-being-style kerning and nicely tucked edges. If you're looking for something more flavorful than Roboto, use this or Inter. Please don't design your own eye-melting garbage, for my sake.
This was discussed 22 days ago(119pts, 48 comments)[0], slightly different content[1] but not by much. It seems a shame this blog post didn't address samueloph's point[2] (lower L and upper i are ambiguous)<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33553659" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33553659</a>
[1]: <a href="https://github.com/mona-sans" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mona-sans</a>
[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554633" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554633</a>
Why is everyone talking about these as /coding/ fonts? They clearly don't have that positioning or intent:<p>> Mona Sans ... work as our primary font across mediums ... You can see it in use on our more marketing-oriented pages on GitHub.<p>> Hubot Sans ... is our secondary brand font at GitHub ... you can see it in use in the ReadME Project, and on the GitHub Universe site.
Maybe I'm weird, but I loathe body text in sans-serif fonts. They aren't all equally bad, but ilI are often confusing. Just the other day I was reading something somewhere with a name that ended in "ill" and I had to copy-paste somewhere else to tell it wasn't just a roman-numeral 3 smushed on the end.<p>And of course sentences that start with "Ill" just break my flow of reading.
For those that really care about the 0Ol1I situation, I would suggest Atkinson Hyperlegible [1].<p>Previously discussed on HN here [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont" rel="nofollow">https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799872" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799872</a>
There’s an earlier font named Mona: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_(font)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_(font)</a>
I’m still very happy to see more high quality and free variable fonts. They save a few lines of code and a bit of network egress when self hosting fonts (for better privacy).
Seems that many big techs are adopting similar style/variant of sans-serif as Mona Sans for branding.<p>Google's Google Sans: <a href="https://imgur.com/N0ePA5O" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/N0ePA5O</a><p>Microsoft's Segoe UI Variable: <a href="https://imgur.com/Rq8RKNQ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/Rq8RKNQ</a><p>Netflix's Netflix Sans: <a href="https://imgur.com/Rax5DNF" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/Rax5DNF</a>