<story><title>In search of the perfect writing font</title><url>https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I used to tell myself I couldn&amp;#x27;t code or write without the perfect font. I&amp;#x27;d spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I&amp;#x27;d forget about the font completely.&lt;p&gt;I have a (rather lazy) friend who&amp;#x27;s been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I&amp;#x27;ve promised to after he 
produces his first block of content, and he keeps saying he can&amp;#x27;t write if he doesn&amp;#x27;t feel the design is aesthetically pleasing. If he&amp;#x27;d spent his time writing instead of worrying about this, he&amp;#x27;d have a crappy initial draft, several revised drafts, and probably something decent by now. But no, that prohibitively unattractive font!&lt;p&gt;It was nice of iA to write this up, and design posts are a fun read, but does anyone who&amp;#x27;s busy actually writing care about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgt</author><text>I recently converted my dynamic DB-driven blog to a static website. I did not predict how badly the added latency between having an idea, writing down the first flawed paragraph, saving a draft, reading what I wrote, then revising and publishing would reduce my writing output. Sure, I can write in Google Docs, but because it&amp;#x27;s not on my site one click away from being &amp;quot;out there&amp;quot; I am far less compelled to write down my fleeting ideas. Over time I have learned that fleeting ideas are the best ones because they exist at the limit of your understanding. Maybe if you help set up his blog, he&amp;#x27;ll be more likely to write?</text></comment>
<story><title>In search of the perfect writing font</title><url>https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I used to tell myself I couldn&amp;#x27;t code or write without the perfect font. I&amp;#x27;d spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I&amp;#x27;d forget about the font completely.&lt;p&gt;I have a (rather lazy) friend who&amp;#x27;s been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I&amp;#x27;ve promised to after he 
produces his first block of content, and he keeps saying he can&amp;#x27;t write if he doesn&amp;#x27;t feel the design is aesthetically pleasing. If he&amp;#x27;d spent his time writing instead of worrying about this, he&amp;#x27;d have a crappy initial draft, several revised drafts, and probably something decent by now. But no, that prohibitively unattractive font!&lt;p&gt;It was nice of iA to write this up, and design posts are a fun read, but does anyone who&amp;#x27;s busy actually writing care about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discoursism</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d guess in almost any trade, the craftspeople care about their tools, even aspects that are mostly aesthetic. I consider myself pretty busy, but I still spend a half an hour every few months reviewing the space of available fonts, looking for something that appeals even more than my current favorite.&lt;p&gt;(FWIW that&amp;#x27;s PT Mono for the last few months, after almost a decade of using Ubuntu Mono exclusively.)</text></comment>