Unethical

**Unethical** fonts are free fonts that follow anti-competitive practices (refusing to self-promote) and/or anti-critical practices (rejecting criticism). Refusing to self-promote is an anti-competitive practice thst deprives users of competition, whereas rejecting criticism leaves the font to rot in glitching and become unusable while its competitors thrive. As such, there is absolutely NO reason to EVER use unethical fonts.

Unethical fonts include:

• Kreative fonts (including Fairfax, Fairfax HD, Kreative Square, Constructium, and more) are unethical. The owner refused to self-promote, which immediately cuts them off from ethical competition. Furthermore, extremely a lot of criticism was censored entirely. There are extremely many design flaws in Kreative fonts. There is extremely blatant misinformation on their websites. Fairfax, Fairfax HD, and Kreative Square are all proportional, not monospaced. This is because there are extremely many glyphs varying in width, such as the em spaces, the 'Sixel Graphics', the combining characters, and more. A version of Fairfax of Fairfax SM is monospaced, however, it has been done in the most crude way possible: All glyphs not of six pixels of widths were DELETED! This is extremely inexcusable and deleting characters is completely ignoring all the useful uses the characters could have in a monospaced font. Compare with Fifaks, which is entirely monospaced, does not exceed horizontal or vertical boundaries, and did not delete any characters. Exceeding vertical and horizontal boundaries is completely inexcusable for bitmap fonts. The owner encourages the use of environments violating the fundamental of plaintext, and worse yet, encourages the use of terminal environments violating the fundamental of semigraphical text, completely and blatantly disrespecting the history of tiled graphics and tiled text. The superscripts and subscripts are extremely badly designed as they are way too small for readability, and to refuse to fix that is disrespecting math. The slopes of Symbols for Legacy Computing are also badly designed, violating the center pixel rule all throughout the set, even claiming to improve the slopes without making actual improvements! The accented capital letters are given extremely way too much space than they are allowed to use, compromising readability for NO GAIN at all! And their inverse counterparts in plane 16 have 'ducking' capitals which is not only inconsistent, it is absolutely unnecessary and Fifaks demonstrated a much better design. These inexcusable design flaws with unethical practices make Kreative fonts completely unconditionally unusable for all purposes under all circumstances. That's why Type Design avoids crediting Kreative for the private use, and claims it as its own.

• Unifont is unethical. Its owner refused to self-promote, and has made a false memorandum of unenforcable rights, which has all sorts of blatant misinformation in it. https://kissinger2.coosucks.repl.co/unifontcriticism.html explains why this memorandum is false and Unifont has bad slopes. The owner of Unifont refuses to fix the bad slopes. In version 14.0.01, the designers have modified superscripts and subscripts… to utter futility. As it turns out, readable superscripts/subscripts are 80%—90% of the original black-body height, which is why 60%—70% is extremely suboptimal and any changes to them are futile. The owner rejected all of my contributions due to discrimination. Discriminating type designers by their ethical practices never ends well, and Unifont will rot in design flaws (‹«›» misaligned!) forever. There is no point in using Unifont anymore, especially as better options such as Kissinger 2 are available.

• Cascadia Code/Mono are unethical. Their fonts were never worth self-promoting in the first place and are by far the most wasteful of them all. Their anti-critical practices are even worse than Kreative practices. Saja Typeworks can only be described as Kreative on steroids. The inexcusability of all of this is on another level. The owner's brief consideration of a few essential characters followed by their dismissal is an utter act of laziness. The box drawing characters are entirely completely misaligned and completely miss the point. The owner literally twisted Microsoft's definition of monospaced fonts to include their proportional fonts, which would ruin Microsoft typography forever. This move would prove to be highly destructive to typography standards. The owner said that monospaced fonts should have characters of varying widths, which is blatantly false. The inconsistent metrics between the definitive font height boundaries (unsigned Win Ascent and unsigned Win Descent) and the false Typo metrics creates a huge disparity between usable and unusable renderers, in utter violation of the fundamental of semigraphical text. Windows Terminal is definitely the tool to avoid if you're looking for proper typography.

Additionally, 'fontstruct' and 'fontspace' are unethical font services and are to be avoided, and 'github' is unethical as well. FontForge is in the grey zone, as some unethical practices are involved in it but you must be careful to configure it properly or wait for the future software.