Episode 138: Wake Up, A New Font Has Dropped

Conor, Amolith and Mike start by discussing fonts by prettiness and legibility. Then they move onto new Framework offerings, followed by the news of EA open sourcing some Command & Conquer games. They end up by discussing the latest Mozilla shenanigans.

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

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Discussion

• Gnome introduces new fonts

• Check out fonts on CodingFont and Programming Fonts

• LunarVim

• Nerd Fonts

• Fantasque Sans

• Atkinson Hyperlegible

• Berkeley Mono

• 0xProto

• Ligature

• Noto Sans

• Comic Mono

• According to some evidence, special fonts don't help with dyslexia

• Framework's announcement blog post

  • The announcement video

• 4 Command & Conquer games were open sourced by EA

• OpenRa

• The Original GTA

• OpenRCT2

• Age of Empires 2

• You can play the original Doom on Internet Archive

• Mozilla's new terms of use post

  • The Firefox maker has been tied up in making statements and backpedalling after an uproar

• Mozilla's Orbit

• The Register's scathing article on AI summaries

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.