Subtle Sans: A Free (Pay What You Want) Font
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Overall, pay-what-you-want feels more like marketing than a socialist ideal.
Personally, if the service is terrible I'll leave no tip, if it's standard, as expected, I'll leave a generic tip (something like 10-20% in restaurants, depending on the total price), if it's great I'll leave a generous tip.
I often feel good being able to thank someone by tipping well, and the only times I have ever felt bad about it were when I wanted to tip more but didn't have the change on me and there was no way to add the tip to a card payment.
So I guess it's just different people prefer different situations socially.
I'm totally with you regarding tipping. Coming from DE this is something you're doing voluntarily, for good service and as much as you like. It's a 'well done' or 'thank you'.
Now I'm in IL and here it is - for all intents and purposes - mandatory. The bill says 'SERVICE NOT INCLUDED' (yes, often in caps. Some waiters like to make sure that foreigners 'get it' by saying it again once or twice or using a marker to make it even more prominent on the bill). You are expected to give a tip of 10%. Service is shitty, food was crap? If you don't give the tip, people might come after you and discuss it.
Since I loathe that custom I could understand if the gp has a similar mindset, feeling _forced_ to pay up.
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ostrich-sans
With so many fonts free, and some like Ostrich Sans completely open source, it will be interesting to see who would pay, and why.
Calluna is the offending font as far as I can see.
> You have A to Z, plus the Norwegian characters Æ Ø & Å, and numbers 0 - 9. All caps.
Nice looking font - thanks for posting it.
"CAPS AND LETTERS You have A to Z, plus the Norwegian characters Æ Ø & Å, and numbers 0 - 9. All caps."
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oxygen rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
If anyone from subtle patterns is reading it would be really nice if you could increase the contrast of the body text to the background. Mid grey on white is hard to read.
That said, it would make perfect sense to have headline set in Subtle Sans, but with larger font size and font samples moved to a less prominent place.
By the way, the Download button actually uses Subtle Sans (not the best place for it IMO though).
Typeface is important, but not as much as knowing how to use it properly. In this regard, typographic solution from Twitter Bootstrap brought a very nice change to the world of ‘developer-built’ websites appearance.
Also, Larabie's free fonts are way better than this one (no offense to OP, but I'm not a huge fan of this font).
That's true mostly with Farmville (buy a tractor to double your harvest speed), but other games take this on as well too. Another example: Companies want to sell over-priced map packs and such, and so will stop the modding communities from creating their own content. If there aren't user submitted maps the company can sell their own for far more.
I used games as an example because it's the easiest for me to come up with examples, but I think this extends into other mediums as well. To me, micropayments change the focus of the publisher of that medium to look for profit where they didn't before, and that creates a worse product.
This is a very loose idea I've had in my head for a while and I haven't put it all together like this before, I'm certainly not an expert on business models or anything like that. This post is purely conjecture on my part.
Don't throw the baby (micropayments) out with the bathwater (abusive games).