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

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.

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.

Seems amateurish and affectedly geometric to my eye. Good effort, but not really suitable for serious use.

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.

Subtle patterns is a great resource - stylish, modern, free - I get background patters from there all the time.

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.

You can check out <a href="http://losttype.com/" rel="nofollow">http://losttype.com/</a> for some awesome fonts with the same pay structure

"All the numbers you need: 123456789" - I guess zero is optional?

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.

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;

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

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)

Neat looking font. I wonder how the price distribution will end up looking.

What is this doing on the frontpage?