The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)

Jul 3, 2020

58:00

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

The Importance of Disambiguity in Programming Fonts

4min

How to Share Code Layers on Social Networks

2min

The Importance of Ligatures in Font Design

1min

How to Optimize Letter Combinations for Programming

6min

The Cognitive Overload of Ligatures

5min

How to Build a Font That Looks Like a Rocket Ship

4min

How to Design a Font From Scratch

5min

Fira Sands: The Open Source Font for Firefox

2min

10.

How Google Fonts Changed Their License for Fira Code

3min

11.

How to Get Adoption of Google Fonts

2min

12.

How to Manage an Open Source Community Around a Font

5min

13.

How to Keep Issues Open

5min

14.

How to Be a Successful Open Source Developer

3min

15.

The Differences Between GitHub and Patreon

4min

16.

How to Code Fonts for Programmers

4min

A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That’s not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!

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