Hacker News with Generative AI: Fonts

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 13 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 15 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 20 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 20 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 27 days ago | 1 comments

VT220 Font Emulation in Browser (janiczek.cz)

Web Development, Fonts, Terminal Emulation

18 points by todsacerdoti 31 days ago | 0 comments

The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)

Fonts, Typography, New York, Design

857 points by robinhouston 48 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 62 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 82 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 99 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 109 days ago | 1 comments

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

macOS, Fonts, Design, User Interface

16 points by noleary 138 days ago | 8 comments

Dev Fonts (gafi.dev)

Fonts, Design, Programming, Development

81 points by Liriel 143 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 164 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 178 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 191 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 197 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 205 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 206 days ago | 1 comments

Routed Gothic Font (webonastick.com)

Typography, Fonts, Design

208 points by Rendello 215 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 218 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 220 days ago | 1 comments

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