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Not that anyone asked, but after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade I’ve come to really love Söhne Mono in the last few months. Ref: https://kl

Not that anyone asked, but after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade I’ve come to really love Söhne Mono in the last few months. Ref: https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/soehne-mono/ https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/soehne-mono/

dotancohen 2y ago
> after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade Biggus Dickus?
- kylecazar 2y ago
  You're thinking Incontinentia
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    Well, it is a pretty nonsensical name for a font. It appears to mean "unconsoled", which (a) has no valid semantics as applied to a font, since fonts don't have thoughts, moods, or feelings; and (b) has a very negative valence - being unconsoled is a bad thing.
    - Hasu 2y ago
      Inconsolata was inspired by and named after Microsoft's Consolas font, which was presumably so named as it was meant for the console.
      - thaumasiotes 2y ago
        OK, but by the time you're just picking ordinary words for the name of your product, should you have any level of concern for what those words mean? Are we going to follow up with "inconsolable"?
        blacksmith_tb 2y ago
        Consolation! Console Nation? I am sure they have a crack font-naming team in Redmond, we haven't seen the end of it yet.
- benreesman 2y ago
  Haha is using Inconsolata a flex?
FireBeyond 2y ago
Even as someone who has bought many fonts for coding, including Pragmata Pro, Operator and others (i.e. not cheap ones), I was blown away that for just the Mono weights in regular and italic is nine hundred and sixty dollars. Shame, I was curious about trying it. Operator and Pragmata go for $199. It also irks me that I cannot buy a single user license for Sohne, but a minimum of a 5 user license.
- JusticeJuice 2y ago
  Individual personal users just aren't type foundaries like Klim's target market. They want to land large businesses who use their typefaces as their dedicated brand font - and the pricing reflects that potential value. I agree though that they've missed out on an opportunity to land individual personal use. They've just slapped their standard license on it, and didn't think much about it.

dotancohen 2y ago

> after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade Biggus Dickus?

kylecazar 2y ago
You're thinking Incontinentia
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  Well, it is a pretty nonsensical name for a font. It appears to mean "unconsoled", which (a) has no valid semantics as applied to a font, since fonts don't have thoughts, moods, or feelings; and (b) has a very negative valence - being unconsoled is a bad thing.
  - Hasu 2y ago
    Inconsolata was inspired by and named after Microsoft's Consolas font, which was presumably so named as it was meant for the console.
    - thaumasiotes 2y ago
      OK, but by the time you're just picking ordinary words for the name of your product, should you have any level of concern for what those words mean? Are we going to follow up with "inconsolable"?
      - blacksmith_tb 2y ago
        Consolation! Console Nation? I am sure they have a crack font-naming team in Redmond, we haven't seen the end of it yet.
benreesman 2y ago
Haha is using Inconsolata a flex?

FireBeyond 2y ago

Even as someone who has bought many fonts for coding, including Pragmata Pro, Operator and others (i.e. not cheap ones), I was blown away that for just the Mono weights in regular and italic is nine hundred and sixty dollars. Shame, I was curious about trying it. Operator and Pragmata go for $199. It also irks me that I cannot buy a single user license for Sohne, but a minimum of a 5 user license.

JusticeJuice 2y ago
Individual personal users just aren't type foundaries like Klim's target market. They want to land large businesses who use their typefaces as their dedicated brand font - and the pricing reflects that potential value. I agree though that they've missed out on an opportunity to land individual personal use. They've just slapped their standard license on it, and didn't think much about it.