alt Hacker NewsMisread the title and got excited about a Pareto font, that is, the best possible font (presumably: distinct l/I, O/0, scores within error margins of the top readability and reading speed scores, widely available, etc.)
Maybe in vein but did anyone already figure this one out? The closest I got was PT sans, open-licensed commissioned by the Russian ministry for communication (I found it surprising that a country that doesn't use Latin script made the best font!), but it's not widely shipped so you need to figure out how to include font files whenever you want to use it
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Trouble with fonts is sometimes monospace good, sometimes monodpace bad
Anyways I'll namedrop Iosevka as perfect monospace font for working on 13" laptop
look at Atkinson Hyperlegible? commissioned by the Braille foundation for low-vision readers which means it's very readable
I'd also be interested in the Pareto Front of Fonts. That would be the final font collection - to rule them all.
No, it's far from the best possible font, but to its credit, it gets most aspects of typography right by just focusing on the ~1/5 of the requirements that actually really count.
lol same :D
I thought it was some sort of Italian activism group.
"The Pareto Front today claimed responsiblity for...."