Proposal 299 (Q1804)
From Nouns Dev
A Nouns proposal.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Proposal 299 |
A Nouns proposal. |
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26 May 2023
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Nouns Display Font
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Im something of a font of myself.
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Hello! thanks for putting together this proposal :D Im generally very in favour of creating a nounish display font, but unfortunately the current glyphs dont feel like theyre quite there yet. Theyre in an awkward spot between playful and formal, without being fully either, and therefore hard to use in practice. Would encourage the propose to lean more heavily into the playful direction Would encourage the proposer to refine the design further and re-propose.
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As someone who works with nounish imagery almost on a daily basis, there is definitely a desire for more nounish typeface alternatives. And while i think the current glyphs of the Nouns Display font has some ways to go, i believe Marco will get there. Zooming out for a bit, one of my deepest convictions re nouns is the compounding value of binding great people to the dao. Allow people who already love nouns to spend their full attention and mind-space on this experiment for some time and beautiful things tend to happen. This pattern has played out over and over. I believe Marco is a great person to expand Nouns to new audiences in typography and graphic design. 18 eth is a very modest ask relative to the potential upside, and just looking at raw opportunity cost, i think its a no-brainer for the dao to fund Marco.
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+1 to krels and senecas vote reasons. worth having a shot on goal for a good display font many can use. doesnt have to be THE font but something many like to use would be a good aim.
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A nouns font that we can use across the ecosystem makes a lot of sense. Echoing what other voters have mentioned - I dont think the work is quite there yet but Marco has already stated the following: these are not final letterforms, that is what the proposal is for, there is a lot of work to be done for this to become a production typeface. My vote FOR is a vote of confidence in Marco to continue to get delve into Nouns culture to find just the right vibe for the font.
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reVoteWithReason @seneca.eth > A nouns font that we can use across the ecosystem makes a lot of sense. Echoing what other voters have mentioned - I dont think the work is quite there yet but Marco has already stated the following: these are not final letterforms, that is what the proposal is for, there is a lot of work to be done for this to become a production typeface. My vote FOR is a vote of confidence in Marco to continue to get delve into Nouns culture to find just the right vibe for the font.
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(noun40 voting via agora) +1 to krels and senecas vote reasons. worth having a shot on goal for a good display font many can use. excited to see how this develops!
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Having a professional display font would represent a maturity for the brand and would be used in thousands of projects over the next decade. This is something you want a professional typeset designed to create and we should pay market rate. Marco is a great designer to do this and I love this prop. ⌐◨-◨
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I think a Nouns font makes sense to have across the ecosystem, and it will be great to see it built and iterated on in the open. Marco is a talented designer whos already working on initiatives to proliferate the font itself (i.e. working with Google Fonts, creating the Nouns font hats, etc.). I support the project and believe Marco is a great person for the job.
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+1 to Krel and Senecas reasons. Budget is relatively high, but I think this has an outsized impact on the ecosystem and makes proliferation through TEXT a game we can start playing.
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we do find this to be an interesting initiative but are unsure what reasonable pricing for an original typeface is. however seeing the artist/community support around this and potential usage across the ecosystem we will give the benefit of the doubt to the proposing team
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i dont know enough about typefaces so i retroactively delegated my vote to ripe who does. in response to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/ripe0x/status/1664452458410807301) where you can see our exchange resulting in this vote for [with reason](https://twitter.com/ripe0x/status/1665065559053197319): > a nouns font is a completely new way to proliferate nouns to a relatively untapped, but super valuable audience: designers. imagine the designer who has never heard of nouns, but comes across the nouns typeface on google fonts when browsing font options for a completely unrelated project. that designer does their due-diligence before choosing it & discovers nouns.wtf, a world of cc0 artwork, prop house rounds to get funded, etc. and by using the nouns font in their unrelated project, they expose another audience to a nouns and the cycle continues.
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Vote of support for designers/creators yet it seems a prophouse round would create more positive outcomes: typeface designers attention, several fonts as outputs, potentially more bang for the buck. Maybe worth reproposing using PH with 3 winning fonts.
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Supportive of independent creators building open source things in the name of Nouns DAO. Ill still use Londrina from time to time though.
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on behalf of UglyDAO: The londrina font that weve been using has added a consistency to much of what happens in nouns. We can see this being a formal replacement for that. The ask seems high but without a true understanding of the effort involved and market rates, its hard to judge. Based on comments by Krel and Seneca, we are voting for in this different type of proliferation experiment.
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Not mad on the font itself (personal preference) nor this method for deciding THE font....not that I think there need to be one tbh This is a hobby thing and doesnt require a roadmap or funding for 18 eth. If for whatever reason people think we do need a new font (I dont) ... run a prop house round (I probably wouldnt)
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Struggling to justify the 18eth ask. If the dao feels a new font is needed I’d suggest opening it up to a Prop House round.
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Marco braunschweiler
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26 May 2023
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In general, we like the idea of making Nounish fonts. But right now, we dont see any connection between this style and Nounish culture. Also, one of our member(credit to Twitter@Gink5814) think that the Nouns font should be made for other languages as well. For example, the letters in the Seed Phrase Wordlist（github.com） stand for languages. The way the Seed Phase is shown in Nouns is more of a way to communicate than a goal in and of itself.
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The proposal is to create a unique, recognizable, and fun Nounish display font that can be used in various Nouns projects and products. The font will be licensed under CC0, allo wing it to be a starting point for other open-source Nounish fonts.
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