I wanted to move a bit from the old monospace design, which felt right for the amount of text content I was generating on the records and quickies, but felt a bit hard to read on older posts, so I set up on a quest to find a replacement for Nova Mono (which, btw, is a wonderful font, with a great story)
After some testing, the winner is Fredoka.
Besides the good readability of the font, I loved its thickness (altough it’s a bit too thick for my content, so I had to ease back on the font-weight
CSS property), its rounded corners making the titles a bit more human and less sharp. What really convinced me were the shapes of the capital “B” and the number “2”.
B 2
The font is based on Fredoka One, the initial Latin component was designed by Milena Brandão, the later Hebrew component (which I’m not serving, because I don’t have Hebrew content) was designed by Ben Nathan, who currently maintains the project at github.
I’m not using Fredoka One at the moment, as it’s suited for very big font-sizes, but I’m planning some changes to take advantage of it, because it’s a beautifully-designed font. I’m also thinking about including the Fredoka Dingbats font, as it’s a great complementary add-on for the font.
- Milena B. Design
- Fredoka One at Google Fonts
- Fredoka at Google Fonts (the one used for body)
- Fredoka Dingbats from gumroad.
- Fredoka One at GitHub.
All images in this article are from Milena B. website