[HN Gopher] The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)
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       The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)
        
       Author : Caiero
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-09-30 02:59 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | pvaldes wrote:
       | _Heliotrope ... with small purple blooms and allegedly [1] the
       | scent of cherry pie_
       | 
       | Footnote[ 1] Can emit a delicious vanilla fragrance or no
       | fragrance at all depending on the variety. The fragrance is well
       | carried by the air
       | 
       | Ever blooming sub-shrub from arid places of Peru. Bee and newbie
       | friendly. Very rewarding if cultured correctly in a big pot
        
       | logbiscuitswave wrote:
       | I certainly have an appreciation for a well crafted font.
       | 
       | As a programmer I am super picky and opinionated about the font I
       | use for coding. I can have a very visceral reaction to one font
       | over another. (For instance, I require really good clarity
       | between O/0, and I/l/1, and I really really hate ligatures.)
       | 
       | That being said, I have very little knowledge about what goes
       | into actually crafting a font. Whenever I read an article like
       | this that goes into how the sausage is made I find it very
       | fascinating.
        
       | pxoe wrote:
       | that paragraph about optima is so strange
        
         | galago wrote:
         | I agree. Optima is a humanist sans-serif but he doesn't seem to
         | know that terminology.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Humanist_sans-serif_t...
        
           | GavinMcG wrote:
           | He _uses_ the term in his non-typographer-oriented book about
           | typography, so that would be a little surprising:
           | https://practicaltypography.com/verdana-alternatives.html
        
       | velcrovan wrote:
       | I wish more fonts were presented alongside expansive, illustrated
       | backstories about their designs (including more of Butterick's
       | fonts). Of course it's not uncommon for material like this to
       | exist, but it's often only found in interviews or third-party
       | blogs. Sometimes it gets a paragraph in a PDF sample.
        
         | achairapart wrote:
         | You may enjoy the Klim Type Foundry Blog (especially the
         | "design information" posts):
         | 
         | https://klim.co.nz/blog/
        
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