Hacker News with Generative AI: Typography

My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) (lfe.pt)
TeX and related systems are often associated with their default fonts, Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern (CM) typefaces. While these fonts are excellent, they have become so ubiquitous in the scientific community that many LaTeX users have sought alternative fonts for their documents.
LaTeX, Fonts, Typography, Design, Science
192 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 52 comments
Font Activations: A Note on the Type (robhorning.substack.com)
In the colophon of the mass-market, pocket-paperback copy of Georges Lefebvre’s The Coming of the French Revolution that I’ve been reading for no particular reason appears the note on the type pictured above.
Typography, Design, Books
55 points by prismatic 7 days ago | 8 comments
Rivers (futilitycloset.com)
Occasionally, by coincidence, the gaps between words on a page of printed text will become aligned, producing “rivers” of white space that descend across multiple lines.
Typography, Visual Phenomena, Curiosities
72 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 8 comments
Luculent: Manually hinted monospace font, crisp at tiny sizes (2015) (eastfarthing.com)
Luculent is a family of scalable (vector), monospaced, geometric sans-serif screen fonts designed for programmers.
Fonts, Typography, Programming, Design
22 points by homebrewer 26 days ago | 2 comments
IKEA's Web Fonts (medium.com)
For the longest time, if you mentioned IKEA to a designer they’d say the word Futura.
Design, Web Development, Typography, IKEA
9 points by robin_reala 29 days ago | 0 comments
Atypography – Art Movement Introduction (atypography.com)
The long-awaited pact has been signed. Typography and abstraction have come to an agreement.  
Art, Typography, Design
28 points by gessha 37 days ago | 4 comments
Kermit: A typeface for kids (microsoft.design)
Imagine having never ridden a broom with the chosen one they call Harry Potter, or stumbled through a closet and into the mystical land of Narnia. For kids that discover the magic of reading through books like Harry Potter or The Chronicles of Narnia, reading is a gateway to otherworldly realms where your only limitation is your imagination. But, reading isn’t easy for everyone. It’s estimated that 1 in 10 people have some form of dyslexia, often undiagnosed.
Dyslexia, Typography, Education, Children
360 points by nmcfarl 37 days ago | 166 comments
Show HN: I Made Bagel Font (bake-ai.com)
ACNE STUDIOSBabygirlMaison Margiela.
Typography, Design, Web Development, Font
15 points by hmpark 37 days ago | 25 comments
Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin (researchgate.net)
Typography, Japanese Language, Design, Language
13 points by bryanrasmussen 38 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web? (ycombinator.com)
As I read HN I often come across personal blogs / websites that look great and are visually easy to read, but I change my mind on what is "best" all the time.
Web Design, Typography, User Experience, Best Practices
17 points by duxup 38 days ago | 12 comments
Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024) (glyphdrawing.club)
In the dimly lit “printing cellar” of Media Museum and Archives Merkki is a remarkable and curious object. It’s a mosaic of tightly arranged brass rule and spacing material, made by a Finnish typographer Valto Malmiola in 1937.
Typography, Art, History, Finland
66 points by benbreen 41 days ago | 11 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 41 days ago | 0 comments
Which typeface's capital "I" makes the best I-beam? (researchgate.net)
Typography, Design, User Interface
4 points by qkeast 41 days ago | 1 comments
The Manicule: The little hand that's everywhere (messynessychic.com)
Familiar to anyone who pays attention to vintage aesthetics, I’m embarrassed to say it’s taken me 40 years to learn the name of the beloved typographic symbol that been guiding the way for centuries.
Typography, Design, History
84 points by bookofjoe 44 days ago | 6 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 44 days ago | 56 comments
Better typography with text-wrap pretty (webkit.org)
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web. Let’s take a look at what the WebKit version of pretty does — it’s probably a lot more than you expect. Then, we’ll compare it to balance and the other text-wrap values to better understand when to use which one.
Web Development, Typography, Safari, CSS
364 points by todsacerdoti 45 days ago | 153 comments
Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)
Nebula Sans is the new brand typeface for Nebula, the premium streaming service from independent creators.
Typography, Streaming Services, Branding
348 points by xucheng 48 days ago | 101 comments
Rich Text, Poor Text (2013) (laemeur.sdf.org)
Bold, italic, subscript, superscript, underlines, strike-throughs — I don't find any of these presentational attributes of text any more frivolous than quotation marks and exclamation points.
Typography, Writing, Design
57 points by SerCe 51 days ago | 28 comments
Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code (github.com/aftertheflood)
A typeface for creating sparklines in text.
Typography, Design, Programming, Data Visualization
55 points by OuterVale 51 days ago | 28 comments
PARANOIA SANS a self-censoring, conspiratorial typeface (fleg.de)
Moon Landing: PARANOIA SANS is a self-censoring, conspiratorial typeface that will automatically redact more than 150 words popular in conspiracy myths/theories.
Typography, Design, Conspiracy Theories
4 points by bj-rn 69 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 70 days ago | 67 comments
Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode (fontgenerator.cool)
Make your text fun and stylish with our fancy text generator 🌟 featuring a wide variety of font styles ready for easy copy and paste.
Web Development, Typography, Creative Projects, Text Manipulation, Unicode
108 points by liquid99 71 days ago | 53 comments
Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf] (archive.org)
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20040305094501/http://www.letterpress.ch:80/APINET/IMMPDF/MONOPHOTO/PHS_journal.pdf
Printing, Typography, History, Design, Technology
19 points by susam 77 days ago | 2 comments
Reimagining Fluid Typography (oddbird.net)
Are we responding to the right inputs?
Typography, Design, User Interface
68 points by BaudouinVH 84 days ago | 25 comments
The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)
Fonts, Typography, New York, Design
857 points by robinhouston 98 days ago | 118 comments
Typography in children's reading schemes may be suboptimal: Evidence (researchgate.net)
Typography, Children's Literature, Research, Education
5 points by bryanrasmussen 111 days ago | 0 comments
Typography in Ten Minutes (practicaltypography.com)
This is a bold claim, but I stand be­hind it: if you learn and fol­low these five ty­pog­ra­phy rules, you will be a bet­ter ty­pog­ra­pher than nearly every writer—and even most graphic designers.
Typography, Writing, Design
13 points by lambrospetrou 128 days ago | 10 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 132 days ago | 1 comments
The Typography Maestro Getting Calls from Hollywood (nytimes.com)
Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy.
Typography, Film, Design, Hollywood
37 points by ripe 134 days ago | 7 comments
Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts (joshleeb.com)
For some time I’ve been working towards building a graphical code editor from scratch.
Programming, Typography, User Interfaces
84 points by todsacerdoti 134 days ago | 30 comments