Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024) (typotheque.com)

This made me think of Recursive Sans and Recursive Mono, two fonts which are also very malleable with multiple settings, but also open source.

https://www.recursive.design/

This looks like a cool typeface in how much it can vary itself, but the price feels extremely expensive, and I don't like having to keep track of which of my library of typefaces are allowed to be used on which projects based on which license I bothered to buy for that typeface. Saying that I want to load the font onto a video server raises the price for a single variant to $1500ish, and there is no clarity on what license you need for web videos. Does that count as a movie license, or a TV license, or a web site license?

Zed Text, not affiliated with the Zed text editor.

I like it actually, i wouldn’t mind paying for fonts or icons if they were double digit priced.

I know some startups that love burning their money are the target audience, but still…

Capital I and lowercase L are identical, not ideal, but maybe not that much of a problem for the use cases of this font.

I though Adobe's font pricing was extreme... While I do appreciate the effort it takes to make a good typeface, this just seems a bit excessive compared to even other commercial alternative packages.

I don't get it. When would I use Zed Text and when Zed Display?

Looks quite nice except the lowercase s is too tall.

Is it just me, or is the lower-case s too tall? It sticks out like a sore thumb in the paragraphs, clearly taller than other x-height letters like e, o or r.

I would pay $8 for this

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