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A disproportionate sans serif without any letter spacing. It's free though, so better than nothing. Edit: Dear downvoters, what I am saying is that you can tak
by thinbeige 9y ago
A disproportionate sans serif without any letter spacing. It's free though, so better than nothing.
Edit: Dear downvoters, what I am saying is that you can take any ramdom sans serif, reduce the letter-spacing and you end up with a similar looking font face which might be even more balanced. Despite my criticism, I expressed my high appreciation that the creator offers his work for free. If you disagree let me know why instead of downvoting, maybe I am wrong and missed something.
- nathancahill 9y agoAbsolutely valid criticism for a font. The page hurt to read.
- eadz 9y agoI wondered if I was the only one to feel dizzy. Maybe it was the colors.
- gjm11 9y agoBy "disproportionate", do you mean "badly proportioned", or merely "proportional" as opposed to monospace?
- thinbeige 9y agoBy disproportionate I meant that it feels like a slightly condensed font without really being a condensed font. This paired with this too small letter spacing creates this disproportionate look. Another poster just commented that it looks like Roboto (or is even based on Roboto) and Roboto faces the same issues but not that worse. Roboto itself is a mutated Helvetica Neue which is admittedly a reference sans serif where every other sans looks inferior amd kind of turned out badly in comparison.
- jlgaddis 9y ago> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- khedoros1 9y agoIMO, it's balanced out by the fuller explanation of what they intended to say and the request for clarification of what was wrong. It's not like they just added a "Why am I being downvoted?" without adding any further value.
- unethical_ban 9y agoI'd say people should resist downvoting without commenting, unless the comment is very clearly vulgar or spammy.
- RX14 9y agoI'm looking at the rendered image and the letter spacing seems vastly better than it is when rendered on the page (Freetype, Linux, with a few simple fontconfig improvements).
- ricardobeat 9y agoWhat platform/browser are you using? It looks great on iOS, feels similar to San Francisco.
- thinbeige 9y agoiOS + Safari