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Subtle Sans: A Free (Pay What You Want) Font

159 pointsby chrisguitarguyabout 13 years ago

17 comments

Mattiabout 13 years ago
Set the default price to $15, $20 or $30 instead of the $1 that it's at now. You'll increase the perceived value of the font while making a ton more money. There's no point in having the initial price "anchored in" at the ridiculously low price of one dollar.
benbjohnsonabout 13 years ago
Personally I am not a fan of "pay-what-you-want" products. It sounds very utopian but it neglects the cost of a guilty conscience. I try to derive a fair price in my head but it's still a balancing act between feeling like I underpaid and I'm a jerk or I overpaid and I'm a chump.<p>Overall, pay-what-you-want feels more like marketing than a socialist ideal.
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mikeklaasabout 13 years ago
Seems amateurish and affectedly geometric to my eye. Good effort, but not really suitable for serious use.
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superfamicomabout 13 years ago
Very elegant! It's similar to Ostrich Sans but different enough to warrant having around.<p><a href="http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ostrich-sans" rel="nofollow">http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ostrich-sans</a><p>With so many fonts free, and some like Ostrich Sans completely open source, it will be interesting to see who would pay, and why.
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draggnarabout 13 years ago
Subtle patterns is a great resource - stylish, modern, free - I get background patters from there all the time.
taitemsabout 13 years ago
Just an FYI, the whole site looks naff in Windows because of the use of "Lucida Grande" and no font-stack degradation. Even a "sans-serif" fallback would have sufficed.
twogabout 13 years ago
You can check out <a href="http://losttype.com/" rel="nofollow">http://losttype.com/</a> for some awesome fonts with the same pay structure
singlowabout 13 years ago
"All the numbers you need: 123456789" - I guess zero is optional?
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calpatersonabout 13 years ago
It's unhelpful that the demonstration contains precisely zero lowercase letters, and don't show what it looks like in a small size. Those are two big considerations when buying a font.
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digitallimitabout 13 years ago
How do I install this for use on my website? I've never included fonts before, outside of the Google Web Fonts API which just asks I stick a link tag in the template.<p>&#60;link href='<a href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxygen" rel="nofollow">http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxygen</a> rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'&#62;
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reneherseabout 13 years ago
Love the "R" in regular weight! I have no idea what the style is called, but drawing the right hand side of the letter so that it avoids intersection with the left-hand vertical stroke is my favorite way to do it. :)
DanBCabout 13 years ago
Thank you for this.<p>If anyone from subtle patterns is reading it would be really nice if you could increase the contrast of the body text to the background. Mid grey on white is hard to read.
olivercameronabout 13 years ago
This is awesome. Beautiful examples make such a difference. However, every time I try to buy it for $10, PayPal checkout says it'll cost $1.
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mgcrossabout 13 years ago
The font looks great, but it would be nice if the headline and body copy were set in Subtle Sans to provide a live preview.
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voxmattabout 13 years ago
Very cool. This is only tangentially related, but I was surprised (and delighted) to see that Ideal Sans is available for free from Google web fonts. It is one of the truly top-tier fonts on Google web fonts; so if you're considering a sans... (I really don't have a dog in this fight; just passing along a deal)
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wildmXranatabout 13 years ago
Neat looking font. I wonder how the price distribution will end up looking.
huhtenbergabout 13 years ago
What is this doing on the frontpage?
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