Although we had never designed a font before, we had extensive experience using Figma to create our app's user interface, custom icons, and svgs over the past few years. Recognizing that creating a font from scratch would be a daunting task, we opted to adapt Nunito. To re-design and create our own stamp on the typeface, we chose Glyphs [1], a beautifully crafted and meticulously planned program. Over the course... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I agree that 150usd might be too cheap for pro market but like I mentioned maybe they found out they need to first go for amateurs. Who knows maybe they will make it more expensive in future or offer some kind of pro option. I also have to mention maybe your expectations are a bit skewed? Software dev got cheaper and not everything has to be breakneck hype venture capital squeeze. There is type design software... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Get the free trial of Glyphs and you can turn it into a font. Source: over 1 year ago

Glyphs (Mac only) and FontLab (Mac+Windows) are both very well regarded. Source: over 1 year ago

I recently redesigned one of my conscripts and had a pleasant experience using Glyphs 3. It's a paid product but offers a 30 days free trial which was enough for my immediate needs. Source: over 1 year ago

The Atlas of Economic Complexity - Visualize global trade data and economic growth opportunities for every country. Source: 11 months ago

The difference between countries are not that great if we're looking at broad industry groups. Going by another "economic complexity" ranking which uses a similar backend data set - https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/. Looking at each sector's proportion of export value and comparing Australia with a similar but highly ranked country like the UK (Rank 12), the standard deviation between for all sectors ratio of export... Source: about 1 year ago

Neoliberalism is a con to strip the general public of it's wealth and hand it to the rich. We don't have to make everything, but if we don't want to be reduced to an impoverished puppet state, we are going to have to increase economic complexity. See Australia vs say France. Source: over 1 year ago

I want to use this data from https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ I'm not sure which version etc given I'm new to data processing/analyses just wanted some hands on stuff. Source: over 1 year ago

Anyone who finds this interesting should check out Ricardo Hausmann's project, the Atlas of Economic Complexity. Source: about 2 years ago