Which font will Manifold be using on July 1st?
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Readex Pro (our current font)
1.1%Other
0.0%
San Francisco (the Apple font)
0.1%
Helvetica / Helvetica Neue
0.5%
Sofia
4%
Proxima Nova
Manifold is currently using Readex Pro for most of its content, but we're considering alternatives. (I personally don't like it, and the one professional designer I showed the site to irl didn't like it either because it seemed "a little goofy".)
This market will resolve to the most commonly used font on our site at the beginning of July 1st, 2022.
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Proxima Nova has everything good I said about Sofia — it feels warm, is readable, looks good in text blocks, is versatile (48 fonts in the family), has unobtrusive numbers and math symbols, and is affordable and licensable through Adobe Fonts.
And compared to Readex Pro and Sofia, M$ in Proxima Nova looks the best! The straight-sided M keeps things compact and clean (especially when left-aligned), and Proxima Nova cleverly switches from a $ with the line all the way through at lighter weights (to avoid confusion between $ and S) to an open $ at bolder weights (to avoid looking too heavy).
Downsides: Sofia's M has angled sides, so M$ doesn't look as tight as Readex's straight-sided M$. Sofia's $ has empty counters, which nicely balance the visual weight of the $ with other letterforms. (Compare that to Readex Pro's $, whose continuous vertical line makes it look denser and blacker than the surrounding letters.) On the other hand, at very light weights and small sizes (which are a bad idea anyway), Sofia's $ starts looking too much like a S.
Sofia (https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/sofia) has the friendliness of Readex Pro, but with a little more polish. It's readable (large x-height), looks good in text blocks, is versatile (40 fonts within the family), and has normal-looking numbers and math and currency symbols. Commercial licensing is included with Adobe Fonts, which I currently have.
@SG I like it! It is a little goofy, but then again so is a website where you can create a prediction market for literally anything.