It all started with searching for and experimenting with different monospaced fonts in IDEs. But then reading and writing so much slowly transformed me into a font maniac. For a while the Personal and then Portfolio Typekit plans offered me comfort.
The last episode of Andy Ihnatko’s podcast introduced me to the ComicBookFonts and their special offer on each year’s Jan. 1st: every font for $20.12[1].
So even if I know I’ll not be able to get them, I’ve put together the list of fonts I’d like to have:
Nine fonts isn’t much, right? But I couldn’t stop here and I have a second list of nice to haves:
Andy Ihnatko posted his 10 picks here.
If you are a font addict too, I bet this whole thing will make you waste a bit of time. But hey, it’s the holiday season so we’re allowed to relax and dream of gifts.
The offer price is actually the year in cents. 2012 means $20.12. ↩
Please either add the ability to retain fonts (and all their settings) when importing Keynote, Pages, and Numbers documents from computer to iPad, or else please create a simple font management tool for the iPad that allows us to import a reasonable subset of our fonts to the device.
+1000
