[HN Gopher] Browse websites by fonts
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Browse websites by fonts
Author : kosasbest
Score : 77 points
Date : 2023-09-05 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| davepeck wrote:
| See also https://www.typewolf.com -- a long-running and popular
| curated look at trends in web typography
| ryanwhitney wrote:
| Also see: https://fontsinuse.com/
| caesil wrote:
| Doesn't surprise me that Inter is number one. It is just so good.
| Every time I try out something else, it feels like a subtle
| downgrade.
| sphars wrote:
| I've seen Inter used so much, that I instantly recognize it
| whenever it pops up on a website. Definitely a good font, but
| fear it may be overused.
| microflash wrote:
| Inter is extremely pleasant to read long walls of text. It is
| also fantastic because of great disambiguation options for
| accessibility (which many "modern" fonts miss out).
| whalesalad wrote:
| Installing on Linux and using as your primary OS font goes a
| very long way to making the system feel modern.
| aendruk wrote:
| I hadn't heard of Inter but I've been doing this with Roboto
| for some time and highly recommend it.
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| Zero results found for comic sans?
|
| I'm sure at least some websites use it exclusively.
| [deleted]
| Modified3019 wrote:
| I'm curious, is there a resource that teaches font appreciation
| and utility implications, like color theories?
|
| I imagine fonts are like a plot full of weeds, there's all sorts
| of information they give off to people who know, but most people
| don't have eyes for what they are looking at.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| personally I learned a bit about it by watching someone who did
| branding professionally, we worked on a few projects together
| and now I can't help but see things their way
| tommek4077 wrote:
| Genuine question, why is HN so obsessed with fonts? Most people
| do not care at all. And we all know the strange love towards
| comic sans from "not computer people", that might even show a
| complete different understanding of beauty.
| daqhris wrote:
| some coders love good, eye-pleasing, or bland design. fonts are
| as important to visual memory as a person's outlook on the
| first day of a job interview. of course, it's hard to agree on
| the appeal or necessity of it.
| wavemode wrote:
| Well, you're right that most people don't care about fonts. But
| people do appreciate good design, and fonts are a big part of
| that. Similarly, most people don't know, or care about,
| anything related to music theory, yet people do appreciate good
| music. People don't care about color theory, but they
| appreciate good art. You get the drift.
|
| Someone liking or disliking Comic Sans is just a matter of
| taste. Fonts are not design, they are just fonts. You can make
| a good design with Comic Sans, and you can make a bad design
| with the best font in the world.
| bodge5000 wrote:
| I think they do care, it's just not something most people
| notice until it looks wrong. I'm not a painter-decorator, when
| I walk into a house I won't notice the paint colour, unless it
| looks terrible or clashes or something, in which case I
| probably will notice.
|
| There's a lot of things like that. A classic example I'm very
| aware of is something called "juice" in game development, which
| you would never notice whilst playing a game until you play one
| without it, at which point its immediately obvious.
| johnloeber wrote:
| > "Most people do not care at all."
|
| I think that might be directly contradicted by your first
| sentence. People do care. Design matters, and typeface
| selection is a big part of that.
| tommek4077 wrote:
| HN is not "most people".
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