Hacker News with Generative AI: Fonts

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.
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.
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.
Why does the same font look better on macOS? (twitter.com)
Dev Fonts (gafi.dev)
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.
Gohufont (gohu.org)
Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Routed Gothic Font (webonastick.com)
Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe (departuremono.com)
Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images (arstechnica.com)
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM (github.com/hsfzxjy)
TuneType (tunetype.com)
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (glyphdrawing.club)
Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs (servermono.com)
I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust (chevyray.dev)
I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust (chevyray.dev)
The TrueType font system is also a byte code VM (twitter.com)
Commit Mono Font (github.com/eigilnikolajsen)
Oldstyle Figures (myfonts.com)
Courrier Font – Google Search (google.com)
Text for Proofing Fonts (2020) (typography.com)
Amiga 500 "Topaz" font updated for the 21st century (gitlab.com)
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM (fuglede.github.io)
Tetris Font (2020) (erikdemaine.org)
George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces (devroye.org)
Jgs Font (adelfaure.net)