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Repo for URW++ base 35 font set

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-08-18 · latest 2025-10-01

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  1. …automatically aliases `cursive` to the Z003 font, which is also what the browser shows me. [0]: https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts
    comment by Hackbraten · 2025-10-01 · in Drunk CSS
  2. …that are falling out of the grid due to font fallback or bad ligatures like Nimbus Mono < https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/issues/3... >.)
    comment by chrismorgan · 2023-08-08 · in Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams
  3. …Nimbus Mono PS mangles things like the two-column `fi`, ligating them to a single-column `fi`. See https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/issues/3... . (b) Courier New is unreasonably thin due to bad digitisation techniques…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  4. …you can use the FOSS Nimbus Sans. It's literally a reimplementation of PostScript Helvetica. https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts
    comment by mod50ack · 2021-08-18 · in Helvetica Now Variable