Hey everyone, OP (Tobias) here. We're excited to release SN Pro today, a friendly new typeface that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. We've carefully re-designed each character, improving support for Markdown and ligatures. For a detailed breakdown of our design process, check out the link [1].
Throughout the development of our app[2] over the past few years, my co-founder Connor and I consistently encountered font-related issues. Certain characters wouldn't align correctly or some symbols we'd want would just be missing. It's been a breath of fresh air to create our own typeface, eliminating the need for the workaround margins and SVGs we used to add. SN Pro is based on Nunito, the fantastic typeface by Vernon Adams [3].
We're relatively new to typefaces, so we're sure they will be things to improve, but would love some feedback if anyone here is into type-setting! Additionally, SN Pro is licensed under OFL (like Nunito before it) and is free for both personal and commercial use. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Thanks for the kind words kyzo, of course you can use it for your dev blog. SN Pro has an SIL Open Font License 1.1 [1]. You can use it in your website, books, posters, artwork, logos entirely for free, no acknowledgement is required (although we'd love it if you mentioned it).
Although we had never designed a font before, we had extensive experience using Figma to create our app's user interface, custom icons, and svgs over the past few years. Recognizing that creating a font from scratch would be a daunting task, we opted to adapt Nunito.
To re-design and create our own stamp on the typeface, we chose Glyphs [1], a beautifully crafted and meticulously planned program. Over the course of several months, we carefully reconsidered each character, adjusting cap heights, and refining kerning (the spacing between characters).
[+] [-] tobeagram|2 years ago|reply
Throughout the development of our app[2] over the past few years, my co-founder Connor and I consistently encountered font-related issues. Certain characters wouldn't align correctly or some symbols we'd want would just be missing. It's been a breath of fresh air to create our own typeface, eliminating the need for the workaround margins and SVGs we used to add. SN Pro is based on Nunito, the fantastic typeface by Vernon Adams [3].
We're relatively new to typefaces, so we're sure they will be things to improve, but would love some feedback if anyone here is into type-setting! Additionally, SN Pro is licensed under OFL (like Nunito before it) and is free for both personal and commercial use. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
[1] https://supernotes.app/blog/posts/sn-pro-font-family/ [2] https://supernotes.app [3] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito
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[1] https://openfontlicense.org/
[+] [-] theschmed|2 years ago|reply
“Super Nunito” put a smile on my face.
[+] [-] Cenk|2 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] tobeagram|2 years ago|reply
To re-design and create our own stamp on the typeface, we chose Glyphs [1], a beautifully crafted and meticulously planned program. Over the course of several months, we carefully reconsidered each character, adjusting cap heights, and refining kerning (the spacing between characters).
[1] https://glyphsapp.com
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