Hacker News with Generative AI: Typography

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 3 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 6 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
36 points by ripe 8 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 8 days ago | 30 comments
Butterick's Practical Typography (practicaltypography.com)
Typography in ten minutes →
Typography, Design, Books
12 points by curling_grad 13 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I worked on a feature that allows you to preview fonts side by side (foxcraft.tech)
Texts makes up 80% of your UI. The right font doesn't just display information—it shapes perception. Choose the perfect font, and turn casual visitors into loyal customers.
Web Development, User Interface, Typography, Design
14 points by pauls_freeman 14 days ago | 5 comments
Coding Font Selection 'Tournament' (daringfireball.net)
Due — never forget anything, ever again.
Coding, Typography, Tools
142 points by tosh 22 days ago | 122 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 23 days ago | 24 comments
The Typography Maestro Getting Calls from Greta Gerwig and Robert Eggers (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, Movie Design, Hollywood, Film
12 points by ripe 25 days ago | 1 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 33 days ago | 1 comments
Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023) (clagnut.com)
The physical copies of my book on Web Typography sold out quickly. I self-published, and print runs are expensive when you’re funding them yourself, so numbers were limited. However it was always my plan to publish an ebook at the same time, and that has out-sold the hard copy by an order of magnitude.
Self-Publishing, eBooks, Typography
223 points by OuterVale 74 days ago | 133 comments
A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy (oneletterwords.com)
Laurence Sterne’s serpentine squiggle is an eloquent testament to the limitation of words.  The twisting line represents a stick waving in the air to wordlessly communicate the vagaries of married life, relating a thousand syllogisms’-worth of meaning.
Literature, Typography, Art
12 points by lordleft 78 days ago | 3 comments
Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy (lllllllllllllllll.com)
Web Development, Typography, HTML, Preprocessors
143 points by todsacerdoti 83 days ago | 57 comments
The backlash against the world's most hated font may be ending (theatlantic.com)
The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.
Design, Typography, Culture
30 points by fortran77 87 days ago | 54 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 88 days ago | 0 comments
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh (theatlantic.com)
The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.
Typography, Design, Culture
8 points by samizdis 88 days ago | 2 comments
Ink traps and pals (2021) (tosche.net)
Recently I’ve seen this tweet from Yves Peters asking how to call these spikes which I replied briefly (spoiler: it’s a light trap!). I had a lot more to explore on the topic, so I decided to write not just about light traps, but similar concepts and shapes too. There are days in life of typeface designers when they want to write 4000 words about these things with no regards to conciseness.
Typography, Design, Light Traps
24 points by fanf2 96 days ago | 0 comments
Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design (uxdesign.cc)
As a web/interface/visual designer I work a lot with label states. Selected, unselected, active, inactive, available, out of stock. Considering that you should never use color as the only visual cue (always remember accessibility dear designer), text weight is often my go-to solution. However, if you’ve ever worked with precisely designed interfaces before, you know how frustrating it can be to find your painstakingly placed labels shoot around like flipper balls when you switch them from regular to bold.
Interface Design, Typography, Accessibility, User Experience
4 points by airstrike 110 days ago | 0 comments
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (int10h.org)
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times:
Computer Fonts, DOS, Retro Computing, Typography
124 points by OuterVale 110 days ago | 15 comments
Butterick's Practical Typography (practicaltypography.com)
Typography in ten minutes →
Typography, Design, Web Development
7 points by ysabri 116 days ago | 0 comments
Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts (codingfont.com)
Hello friend, I am wentin, creator of Coding Font. I have been building Typogram — a logo design tool, and it is now launched! Upvote us on Product Hunt!
Coding Fonts, Typography, Design Tools
56 points by rootforce 119 days ago | 39 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 121 days ago | 116 comments
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (brailleinstitute.org)
Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.
Accessibility, Typography, Design
786 points by fanf2 124 days ago | 214 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 130 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 130 days ago | 1 comments
Coloring Korean Keystrokes: 11'172 Characters (sam.today)
Korean Language, Typography, Design
5 points by samtoday 137 days ago | 1 comments
Routed Gothic Font (webonastick.com)
Typography, Fonts, Design
208 points by Rendello 139 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 143 days ago | 15 comments
The Monospace Web (owickstrom.github.io)
Web Design, Typography, Open Source
612 points by mrunseen 144 days ago | 153 comments
TuneType (tunetype.com)
Typography, Web Design, Fonts
12 points by pietroppeter 156 days ago | 1 comments