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Yup! We use Proxima-Nova. It's probably the next Helvetica Neue (i.e. hipster designers will be rolling their eyes at you soon). One of the things that's great
by sudonim 14y ago
Yup! We use Proxima-Nova. It's probably the next Helvetica Neue (i.e. hipster designers will be rolling their eyes at you soon).
One of the things that's great about it is there are so many variations: Regular, Light, Regular Italic, Light Italic, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Black, Semibold Italic, Bold Italic.
Most other sans-serif typefaces we evaluated didn't have enough variation that it could reliably service any use-case.
We use proxima-nova on http://customer.io http://customer.io as well as in all our presentations (e.g. https://speakerdeck.com/sudonim/write-emails-people-will-read https://speakerdeck.com/sudonim/write-emails-people-will-rea... ) . Love that typeface.
- peterjmag 14y agoAgreed on the huge range of weights and styles. I experimented with almost all of them for http://peterjmags.com/ http://peterjmags.com/ before settling on the current two for headings. Each variation that I tried had such a different impact on the overall design and "character" of my site. To me, that's the mark of a well-designed family of type. And great work on the customer.io site! I was actually admiring it just yesterday after following your link in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912268 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912268
- swah 14y agoOff-topic: do you know where a beautiful document like http://www.marksimonson.com/fontspecimens/ProximaNovaOverview.pdf http://www.marksimonson.com/fontspecimens/ProximaNovaOvervie... is made?