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Shantell Sans (2023)
- xyzzy_plugh 4mo agoWow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts. This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
- largbae 4mo agoDyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.
- mplanchard 4mo agoI am not dyslexic, but the roboto example also highlighted a very stark difference in readability for me! Especially after having gotten used to shantell sans reading up to that point, the roboto felt nigh-unreadable.
- albert_e 4mo agoI also love this font -- it seems very readable and could be a good go-to in many places. Having said that -- the speciifc image showing difference between this font and Roboto -- uses a lower contrast for Roboto -- which surely has an effect on its readability? I wish they showed a more direct comparison without changing the contrast to introduce an extra element.
- glerk 4mo agoI like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.
- 0x69420 4mo agothe formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont. [0] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans
- dostick 4mo agoThat’s the coolest thing!And “bounce” slider. What a time to be alive… I wonder if there are more fonts like that with special adjustments. Still waiting for technology to allow handwritten font with true randomness.
- tasuki 4mo agoOne of my favourite fonts is Recursive[0]. It has even more variable axes than Shantell Sans: apart from the usual weight and slant it also has a "Casual" axis as well as "Monospace" (which is continuous from fully proportional to fully monospace). I use Recursive as my terminal font, and in many other places. You can also play with it on Google Fonts[1]. [0]: https://www.recursive.design/ https://www.recursive.design/ [1]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive
- merlindru 4mo agoRecursive is terrifically legible, especially with Casual all the way on. I couldn't tell you why, but reading code feels much, much more natural with it than with most other fonts. Perhaps it's the high degree of separation because every character looks meaningfully different? The "kerning" (or whatever the visual space between letters is called in monospace fonts) is also among the best.
- tasuki 4mo ago> especially with Casual all the way on Ah, thanks for that. I wasn't brave enough! I was using the Duotone version (normal version is Linear, while italics and bold are Casual). Indeed I'm happier with everything being Casual.
- jxf 4mo agoI'm not familiar with Metafont -- is this what you're referencing? https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en
- jgord 4mo agogorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art. superb. totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
- watchful_moose 4mo agoThe parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept. The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
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- jhack 4mo agoIs it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.
- mplanchard 4mo agoI was also really hoping for a mino version. I have used comic-sans-inspired monospaced fonts for some time for coding, because I think they are extremely readable. This font is so beautiful, I’d really love to see it in my terminal
- mplanchard 4mo agowhoops “mono” obviously, but past the edit window now
- replwoacause 4mo agoI use and love this. Not quite the same, and not free, but I think it's beautifully made. https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia
- merlindru 4mo agoTosche also has a very well made "Comic Code" font with ligatures
- InsideOutSanta 4mo agoThat's very pretty and readable, thanks for the recommendation! Just switched to it.
- Hasnep 4mo agoI recently came across Annotation Mono which has less of the informality of Shantell Sans, but still has a handwritten feel. https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/ https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/
- zimpenfish 4mo agoI'm a (currently, at least) big fan of Recursive Mono Casual[0] which I believe I downloaded from Google Fonts[1]. [0] https://www.recursive.design https://www.recursive.design [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive?preview.script=Latn https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive?preview.script=L...
- jamwise 4mo agoFirst time seeing it and this is already my favourite hand-written font. Great work!
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- aetherspawn 4mo agoDo you think a corporate brand would get away with using this font site-wide? In an increasingly sterile and AI world, is a human centric approach a good thing albeit possibly unprofessional by current standards?
- Fnoord 4mo agoA website could offer accessibility features, such as dark mode or dyslexia font. These could be subtle, or very obvious, depending on your target group. Large amounts of texts (e.g. a testimonial) could be a valid example. If you go for site-wide, you got consistency. If you'd apply it on h1-3 you'd put emphasis on the titles. It'd be great if say Mozilla Firefox included this font natively (for the app itself). Then again, the default is currently Times New Roman...
- WillAdams 4mo agoThe local grocery store chain to me, Giant Foods uses a handwriting oriented sans serif font, Robert Slimbach's Cronos Pro (which was a favourite of mine until that rebranding....)
- mbostock 4mo agotldraw uses this font. It’s a great fit for emulating hand-written notes on a whiteboard; feels human.
- replwoacause 4mo agoA beautiful font, and a beautiful gift from the creators. Very nice!
- mercacona 4mo agoThe font is great. What I miss is a step forward in technology: variable glyphs. The feeling of reading a handwritten text is lost when the letters have always the same shape. If it were possible to add 5-6 little variations for each letter and alternate them randomly, it would be awesome.
- bentley 4mo agoIt’s a monospace font not a handwriting font, but TT2020 uses an interesting technique to do this. https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo.html https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo.html https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo2.html https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo2.html
- mercacona 4mo agoI had read the story. So cool! Maybe once we will see a new specification allowing the code solution.
- joelthelion 4mo agoOr even sample from a distribution of variations for infinite possibilities ?
- xixixao 4mo agoYou could sample the informality variable for this font, it might work out.
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- chokolad 4mo agoSomewhere in the middle of the article, I stumbled upon a multilanguage sample and noticed that this font has wonderful Cyrillic glyphs. In my previous experience with new fonts Cyrillic usually is not as great as the latin part of the font. The exception being fonts done by foundries based in cyrillic speaking countries, like ParaType fonts [1]. Well, the last third of the article goes into the details on how they achieved it. [1] https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery
- aboardRat4 4mo agoWow, this is so ugly that it's hard to even describe how ugly it is.
- crookedusage90 4mo agowow just what i was looking for
- nanapipirara 4mo agoAmazing work! I am using this for a project immediately, it has so much joyful charm while still being readable. I reworked my personal website to use it too :) The bounce and informal options are just what I was looking for for years. https://www.lukaskrepel.nl https://www.lukaskrepel.nl