Thursday, July 22, 2021

The perfect writing font(s)

From the iA Writer blog: “In search of the perfect writing font.” The argument therein for a monospaced font is just one example of the thoughtfulness behind iA Writer, whose creators understand that writing is not word-processing. The app now comes with three monospaced fonts.

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[In my mind, word-processing takes a hyphen. Always has, always will.]

comments: 2

Anonymous said...

Ha. Indeed. But Michael you forgot the best bit, which is that for non IA users (you probably want a hypen there!) the beautiful Duospace font can be downloded free here https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20Duospace.
Thanks for the tip!
johannes

Michael Leddy said...

Good point, johannes. They have a page with links for all their fonts. (I like Quattro.)

I find the choices of font on their GitHub pages puzzling. My guess is that most users would want the variable ones. Does that seem right to you?