(1) Do you have an objective metric of legibility? Can you measure it without running a large study?

(2) Can you decide for yourself whether a particular font is better for you? Do you need an objective metric to persuade you?

(3) Did you encounter projects that people do to scratch their own itch? Were any of them occasionally useful for a wider audience?

I only ask because the website says

"because there just wasn't any free or paid font that I found both readable, effective and elegant"

and I can think of several, including the ones I listed.

I'm not saying not to do projects like this! Scratching your own itch and sharing your solution is great. I'm just skeptical, as someone who has obsessively tried just about every programming font out there, when I read that a new font does something better than the handful of fonts I always end up returning to. What is that something?

The website doesn't claim that the font does anything better, except that it is more readable, effective, and elegant, in the experience of the designer, Rune B.

If you really do know about several fonts that Rune B. finds more readable, effective, and elegant than this one, I would urge you to contact them.

> Is this, like, a subjective thing?

Yes, “crispness” and especially “legibility” are subjective traits.

> Or do I have bad taste?

Taste is also subjective.