[okayishdefaults]

I'm unsure if "no descenders" provides increased clarity. For example, lowercase q is easy to recognize because your eyes are already drawn to it being one of few characters that descend. In the case of this font, you have a small uppercase Q as the lowercase q. This feels like it accomplishes the opposite of this stated benefit.

[dlisboa]

> I'm unsure if "no descenders" provides increased clarity.

Of course not: if it did we would be doing it that way everywhere. Typeface design has thousands of years of history, there's only a few major variations in latin types and we've tried them all. Descenders exist for a reason.

This type is pretty cool for what it is meant for, the retro aesthetics. Old school digital displays (like alarm clocks) don't have descenders so it fits pretty well.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

> Descenders exist for a reason.

Yeah but I wouldn't just assume it's because they are the optimal solution. Look at architectural handwriting, very clear, no descenders.

[latexr]

> Look at architectural handwriting, very clear, no descenders.

I just looked it up, and every example I see has descenders in the lowercase letters.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

technical drawings and notes are almost always all caps

[latexr]

It doesn’t really count as “no descenders” if you’re only using letters which don’t have any to begin with. And all caps is harder to read fluidly, so that also doesn’t support the point.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

Yes, they've specifically chosen to avoid ascenders/descenders for clarity and uniform spacing. I don't see how that's not relevant.

[dsr_]

Many styles of architectural handwriting use descenders in the lower case. (Many other styles forbid or disdain the lower case.)

[foofoo12]

Nowhere does it promise to increase clarity. In one place it says "modern clarity", which is in my opinion and many cases worse than non-modern clarity.

[j4coh]

Modern claritu

[Terretta]

Yes, it's surprisingly not terrible except for y->u

[drob518]

Yep, I agree. Your eyes need these clues to help you read at speed. When every character looks similar, you have to slow down to look at individual characters, rather than just glancing at a whole word.

[__mharrison__]

Was wondering this to. Then I saw the final item in the list of uses: ASCII art...

[Minor49er]

At a glance, the phrase about it on the site looks like it's saying "Retro aesthetic meets modern claritu"