The Story

I’m Fabrizio Schiavi, I’m a graphic designer and I design ergonomic typefaces.

The most ergonomic one I made so far is  PragmataPro™, the font family designed to replace all the uncomfortable monospaced fonts I used to use for coding my websites.

I was sure that a more condensed font would have been more readable than the usual wide and too much spaced ones available as system fonts, so in 2001 I designed and published Pragmata™, the father of PragmataPro™, and have had incredible endorsement. The programmers understood the results by purchasing 187 licenses of the font until now.

PragmataPro™ is my most ambitious project to date: compared to Pragmata™ (available in Regular only) it’s a family of four weights (Regular, Bold, Italic and BoldItalic) and for every weight I want to design and hand hint about 2000 letters and symbols for math and programming in the Latin (western, eastern), Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew scripts, for APL and LaTex programming.

What I Need & What You Get

As you may figure, this is an enormous undertaking for only one person. In fact it took me four years to release the beta version (0.8) now available. Now I ask you to support this fantastic project: my aim is to reach an amount that would be enough to redeem all the necessary time and work to evolve it. I estimated this amount in $220,000: the 13% will go to fees, the 43% in Italian taxes and the 44% is the clean amount for the project. Incredible but true…
With $96,000 I can design for 800 days and I’m sure to done the project.

If the amount is be reached I will change the license of use to an open source license (Creative Commons CC BY), and the typeface will be available for free.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: In case the campaign does not reach the objective, I will offer to every contributors the regular license of PragmataPro™ at €20 (instead of €170) also if the contributor donate also just $1 only. At the end of this campaign every contributors can claims this offer. But please don’t offer anonymously if you want this discount.

Please consider suggesting to your friends and colleagues doing this: this font really helps programmers to work in more comfortable conditions. Many customers gave me feedback like this: “Just writing to send greetings from my eyes. They thank you every day!"