[HN Gopher] GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and ...
___________________________________________________________________
GitHub is releasing two open-source fonts: Mona and Hubot Sans
Author : stanislavb
Score : 48 points
Date : 2022-11-10 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| LarsDu88 wrote:
| - Time spent on making font: 3 hours - Time spent on making
| website with cute CG robots to promote font: 5 months, $700,000
| in graphic design and engineering labor
| jagger27 wrote:
| All I'm asking for is a drop in replacement for Univers with good
| licensing.
| [deleted]
| IshKebab wrote:
| Wow that lowercase y is quite something.
| hardwaresofton wrote:
| > Licensed under OFL (basically, use it on your site or in your
| app and credit GitHub--read the full license)
|
| Is this common for F/OSS fonts? I don't know that I've seen many
| fonts that require attribution.
|
| TIL any the OFL
| (https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id...)
| rcarr wrote:
| I've observed a lot of sport brands have been using similar
| fonts.
|
| Examples:
|
| - https://uk.formswim.com
|
| - https://www.nike.com
|
| - https://www.reebok.co.uk
| slbtty wrote:
| I don't understand why they invest(or buy?) fonts?
| slater wrote:
| To save money on licensing existing fonts. Own the font, do
| what you want with it, independent of whatever license changes
| a third-party might impose years down the line.
| barkingcat wrote:
| Perhaps I'm misreading your question, are you asking why they
| invest in fonts?
|
| If so, the answer is that fonts are a major underpinning of how
| an organization or a product is presented to the world.
|
| To make an analogy that the hn crowd might understand, the
| value of a typeface for a design system is like the value a
| cryptographic primitive or a library like openssl to a
| functioning security system.
|
| Nobody (aside from designers and typographers) will think "oh
| wow that font is so great they must have invested a lot into
| it", but it underlies every written visual interaction between
| the brand/product/company and its audience.
|
| That said, are there many other fonts available that fall into
| the appropriate style, usage, licensing terms, etc that GitHub
| need? Perhaps. But uniqueness is a value in itself, and having
| a decision about a set of fonts that the company uses is a
| pretty important thing.
|
| It's like the 3 spaces or 4 spaces vs tabs discussion. Some
| people use one, other people use another. But in a company,
| having an approved typeface that is recognized internally as
| the typeface to use (of course, you can have different
| typefaces for different scenarios/uses) - is just as important
| as determining which one to use.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| Standards make sense but it how many san serif fonts do we
| really need as a species? It was someone's job here to set
| out and reinvent the wheel, and that seems like a waste of
| effort to me.
| dandellion wrote:
| Fine, but are there any good reasons to spend resources on
| fonts?
|
| Maybe if they spent less resources on achievements, fonts,
| etc. and more on reliability they could improve their
| downtime, which seems to be happening more and more often.
| a_t48 wrote:
| Does money/time spent by designers/front end take away from
| that towards back end?
| _s wrote:
| Just a quick note - the "body" text on the page uses Alliance,
| also designed by the same studio I think
| (https://degarism.com/Alliance). The two fonts themselves are
| catered more towards headers / titles.
| pokstad wrote:
| Funny, didn't GitHub start the trend of using system fonts on
| their site? That was such a refreshing change.
| samueloph wrote:
| Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase
| "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that
| by now :(
| JaggedJax wrote:
| Worse than look exactly alike, they are exactly the same. Pixel
| for pixel when I compare the examples on the site. Sigh.
| bombcar wrote:
| At least they both don't look like the 1.
|
| Someone's gonna lose a LOT of crypto over this.
| O_H_E wrote:
| lmao, they are actually identical.
| vouaobrasil wrote:
| Good point. I like the look of these fonts but upon noticing
| your point I decided I won't use them.
| a_t48 wrote:
| l had to Iook very carefully to make sure you hadn't
| substituted the two Ietters. :)
| [deleted]
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-11-10 23:01 UTC)