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.

Typography, Fonts, Design, Programming, OpenType

3 points by leonim 17 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 34 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 44 days ago | 1 comments

Why does the same font look better on macOS? (twitter.com)

macOS, Fonts, Design, User Interface

16 points by noleary 73 days ago | 8 comments

Dev Fonts (gafi.dev)

Fonts, Design, Programming, Development

81 points by Liriel 78 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 99 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 113 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 126 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 132 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 140 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 141 days ago | 1 comments

Routed Gothic Font (webonastick.com)

Typography, Fonts, Design

208 points by Rendello 150 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 153 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 155 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM (github.com/hsfzxjy)