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fabrizioschiavi / pragmatapro

PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better
https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
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[REJECTED] New year gift #47

Closed sergeevabc closed 7 years ago

sergeevabc commented 7 years ago

Dear Fabrizio, Where could mere users like me download Pragmata Pro (TTF) for free on New Year’s eve?

slice commented 7 years ago

Here's an excerpt from the website regarding the pricing:

Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen you can not realize the work that is behind such a project. I tried, and I try, in every way a sponsorship or funding to reduce the price of the license, my dream was to offer it for free, but I don't found that and I have to sell the license at a price at least partially compensate for the effort involved realize PragmataPro. To reduce the price now would be economic suicide for me and misconduct against those who have believed before you and have already paid the amount required.

My opinion about the pricing: This font looks great, and has excellent glyph coverage -- Unicode math symbols, arrows, Hebrew, Fraktur, IPA phonetics, poker cards, APL, ligatures, and a bunch more... You can't find that kind of quality elsewhere. I'm a programmer, and I don't draw fonts. However, I want the best when it comes to what font is displayed on my screen. :)

Fabrizio pours his blood and soul into his font. I heard that all glyphs are hinted by hand, and it's probably true.

It also wouldn't be fair to the people who paid for the font, I guess.

sergeevabc commented 7 years ago

My opinion about the pricing… It also wouldn't be fair to the people who paid for the font…

Is it fair to hug for free whereas others buy flowers and quote romantic poetry to deserve one? Nobody expects you to refuse remuneration on a regular basis, but to be generous once in a while. There are places to give away for a limited time with “private use only” restriction like Input font does.

CNMan commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

msva commented 7 years ago

Not that Iosevka will be a little close to Pragmata in "L&F". And in features. Well, if talk about alternatives, there is also nerd fonts project, which patches many opensource fonts (incl. iosevka (well, not sure about exactly it), firacode and some more) with additional glyphs.