Site Maintenance.
Replacing ‹Monitor Pro› with ‹Inria Sans›
Since around 2014, so far I have used ‹Monitor Pro› as the primary letter for my personal branding. I got this Fred Smeijers designed typeface for free when Ourtype — now TypeBy — was holding a limited promotion at that time.
But even though it is legal, I always feel uncomfortable about some things that could be judged as license violations. Because, over time, eventually I am using it on more than one personal website (read: subdomain). Then, as needed, I finally did subsetting and exporting the WOFF2 format, because ‹Monitor Pro› was only available in WOFF format at that time. Besides that, I’m also tired of having to deal with Base64 encoding every time I want to upload a webfont to a public server such as Github Pages.
After considering a number of open source typefaces with designs that are still more or less visually similar, I finally decided to use the typeface ‹Inria Sans› from Black Foundry instead, with a minor adjustment — I used the ‹Light› weight because of the stem widths between ‹Regular› and ‹Bold› lacked contrast for my purposes.
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Meanwhile, although ‹Inria Sans› has a serif variant — named ‹Inria Serif› — for now I am still keeping ‹Alegreya› and ‹Alegreya Sans› as secondary typefaces, and ‹IBM Plex Mono› for monospaced layout purposes.
This post is part of the ‹Site Maintenance› series and also available in Bahasa Indonesia version.
