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Hi and welcome to Ode (pronounced oh-dee). Glad you stopped by.
Important: Ode is very new.
In the coming weeks I intend to post a lot of information to this site, and of course the complete project (including a set of sample themes and documentation) will be available for you to download.
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-Rob
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There's a lot to like about Sarcastic Robot a monospaced handwriting font by @chankfonts.
As you probably know, I like to say, 'Ode is simple'. More than a promotional tease, 'simple' is an inspiration, and the project's primary design principle.
Among other goals, I hope that keeping Ode simple means blurring the distinction between developer and end user.
Moreover, Ode is intended to allow us to take advantage the capabilities of modern text editors - some of the most sublime (robust, and polished) software applications ever written. With Ode, we use a text editor to manage all aspects of your site(s) (content management, design, and development).
When it comes to writing code, including markup languages like HTML, a monospaced font is your best friend - which is certainly not to suggest that they are not useful for any number of other purposes as well.
Chank Co, an independent type foundry specializing in 'cool fonts for smart designers and free fonts for instant download' (as well as custom fonts), has a brilliant monospace font called Sarcastic Robot which I highly recommend. It's available now for the bargain price of only $1.99.
It's not going to replace Monaco in terms of utility, but there is a lot to like about it. For all it's zaniness, straight characters are straight, curvy characters are (extra) curvy, and all are easily distinguishable.
Some notes:
Great letter heights (in my opinion)
Doesn't work well at very small size (12 pt is perfectly legible/and plenty small for most purposes)
Character set is western languages only, and (maybe) somewhat limited
