Hacker News with Generative AI: Fonts

"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" But Would You Pirate a Font? (torrentfreak.com)
Twenty years ago, the statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. Through a memorable commercial, the movie industry forcefully equated digital piracy with physical theft. While the PSA became instantly recognizable, spawning countless parodies, it also attracted its own controversy. New revelations suggest that the campaign's distinctive font may have itself been copied, or dare we say 'stolen'.
Copyright, Piracy, Media, Fonts, Advertising
7 points by gaws 14 hours ago | 3 comments
You wouldn't steal a font (fedi.rib.gay)
Ethics, Design, Open Source, Software, Fonts
1360 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 386 comments
Technicality (greenend.org.uk)
Technicality is my own personal scalable font, which I use in all my terminal windows and text editors on Linux.
Fonts, Linux, Terminal, Text Editors, Personal Projects
12 points by theunamedguy 8 days ago | 0 comments
Notes on monospace, fonts, ASCII, Unicode – A collection of TILs and resources (wonger.dev)
A collection of TILs and resources
Typography, Fonts, ASCII, Unicode, Programming
6 points by slater 14 days ago | 0 comments
More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts (adobe.com)
Love Helvetica? Can't get enough of Arial? Craving Times New Roman? Today is your lucky day! We’ve added more than 1,500 new fonts to Adobe Fonts, including many of the most popular fonts of all time from Monotype. This is our largest font expansion in five years – and it comes at no extra cost.
Fonts, Adobe, Design, Typography, Software
37 points by trbutler 16 days ago | 56 comments
Kermit Font (kermit-font.com)
Microsoft’s 50th anniversary is marked, among other things, by the introduction of a new font in Office: Kermit.
Fonts, Microsoft, Anniversary
15 points by radeeyate 17 days ago | 3 comments
Monotype just hit us with a $30k/yr font license fee for one font (reddit.com)
Monotype just hit us with a $30,000+/yr font license fee for one font. I’m speechless and lost
Fonts, Licensing, Pricing, Software
37 points by robin_reala 20 days ago | 6 comments
Show HN: Font Pair – I was wasting hours choosing fonts, so I built this (github.com/CodeWithNeer)
Picking fonts should be illegal with how hard it is. So I made a tool that gives you clean, cool, random font combos with one click. No guessing. Just vibes.
Tools, Design, Web Development, Fonts
5 points by CodeWithNeer 35 days ago | 6 comments
Memory safety for web fonts (chrome.com)
Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make font processing in Chrome secure for all our users.
Security, Web Development, Programming Languages, Fonts
306 points by mmmrk 38 days ago | 220 comments
Revenge Font (revengefont.com)
Someone vandalised our building, so we had to do something about it.
Revenge, Fonts, Design, Vandalism, Creative Projects
7 points by ChrisArchitect 42 days ago | 0 comments
Kerning, the Hard Way (octetfont.com)
Here’s what this particular example looks like without kerning:
Typography, Design, Fonts, Kerning
232 points by todsacerdoti 42 days ago | 67 comments
Revenge Font (revengefont.com)
Someone vandalised our building, so we had to do something about it.
Creative Projects, Fonts, Vandalism
15 points by ChrisArchitect 49 days ago | 1 comments
VT220 Font Emulation in Browser (janiczek.cz)
Web Development, Fonts, Terminal Emulation
18 points by todsacerdoti 53 days ago | 0 comments
The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)
Fonts, Typography, New York, Design
857 points by robinhouston 70 days ago | 118 comments
Gnome 48 Switches over to "Adwaita Sans" as Default Font (phoronix.com)
As another last minute change for GNOME 48 ahead of its feature freeze this weekend, the default font of the GNOME desktop has changed.
GNOME, Desktop Environments, Fonts, Open Source, User Interface
5 points by ksec 84 days ago | 0 comments
Numderline: OpenType Ligatures for Number Clarity for 4+ digits (thume.ca)
Numderline is a font patcher that uses OpenType font shaping trickery to make it easier to visually parse large numbers. It has multiple variants for different preferences, fonts and contexts.
Typography, Fonts, Design, Programming, OpenType
3 points by leonim 104 days ago | 1 comments
Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps (badkeming.com)
Where kerning’s so bad it’s keming, plus other typographical and font failures.
Typography, Design, Fonts, Errors, Visual Design
122 points by gaws 121 days ago | 24 comments
Bad Keming – Where kerning's so bad it's keming (badkeming.com)
Where kerning’s so bad it’s keming, plus other typographical and font failures.
Typography, Design, Fonts, Humor
8 points by samwillis 131 days ago | 1 comments
Why does the same font look better on macOS? (twitter.com)
macOS, Fonts, Design, User Interface
16 points by noleary 160 days ago | 8 comments
Dev Fonts (gafi.dev)
Fonts, Design, Programming, Development
81 points by Liriel 165 days ago | 41 comments
Making a Variable Color Font (harbortype.com)
Stacking multiple fonts on top of each other is a makeshift solution for creating multicolored text in digital media. I was well aware of this when I designed Rocher. On the other hand, I so excited about it I couldn’t keep myself from releasing it even knowing the user experience would be subpar.
Typography, Design, Fonts
3 points by cfcfcf 186 days ago | 0 comments
Gohufont (gohu.org)
Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use.
Fonts, Programming, Terminal
17 points by pizza 200 days ago | 3 comments
No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023) (aktsbot.in)
Ever since I saw elementary os sporting the very legible Inter font for its UI and site, I wanted to make it part of my desktop too.
Linux, Fonts, User Interface
174 points by Flex247A 213 days ago | 150 comments
Comic Mono (dtinth.github.io)
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).
Fonts, Typography, Design, Open Source
441 points by rootforce 219 days ago | 116 comments
What you can get out of a high-quality font (sinja.io)
In the previous article (Quick guide to web typography for developers) we covered the basic steps to improve the typography in your apps. Today I'd like to expand a bit more on the topic of fonts and what you can get out of a high-quality font (paid or free). High-quality fonts often come with a full bag of goodies, it will be unwise to not use what the type designer gifted (or sold) to us.
Typography, Fonts, Web Development, Design
347 points by OlegWock 228 days ago | 94 comments
Recursive Font (recursive.design)
Built to maximize versatility, control, and performance, Recursive is a five-axis variable font. This enables you to choose from a wide range of predefined styles, or dial in exactly what you want for each of its axes: *Monospace, Casual, Weight, Slant, and Cursive*. Taking full advantage of variable font technology, Recursive offers an unprecedented level of flexibility, all from a single font file.
Typography, Design, Fonts, Variable Fonts
10 points by warkanlock 228 days ago | 1 comments
Routed Gothic Font (webonastick.com)
Typography, Fonts, Design
208 points by Rendello 237 days ago | 32 comments
Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe (departuremono.com)
Fonts, Design, Typography, Pixel Art, Lo-fi
185 points by microflash 241 days ago | 15 comments
Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images (arstechnica.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Image Generation, Technology, Fonts
7 points by ashitlerferad 242 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM (github.com/hsfzxjy)
Fonts, WebAssembly, Open Source, Software
190 points by hsfzxjy 248 days ago | 53 comments