[HN Gopher] Reddit Sans
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Reddit Sans
Author : platzhirsch
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-11-29 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| MR4D wrote:
| This is a really clean font. Nice work!
| Wistar wrote:
| It is a handsome typeface.
| nullindividual wrote:
| It's terrible.
|
| L != I
| jeffcox wrote:
| I guess with less users and moderators they have more time to
| explore their hobbies over at reddit now.
| mjr00 wrote:
| Reddit has always had a ton of stupid irrelevant side projects.
| Remember "creddits"/ReddCoin, the "social cryptocurrency" they
| were developing? Hard to believe that was a decade ago. Harder
| to believe that in retrospect, they should have just done it,
| been ready when the crypto hype wave came and exited/IPO'd as
| billionaires.
| nicbou wrote:
| On the other hand, that big pixel board thing they do once a
| year is a great idea. Some of these other things also led to
| fun community behaviours.
| progval wrote:
| Not once a year, it was supposed to be a one off in 2017,
| and they did it again in 2022 and 2023.
| kmeisthax wrote:
| The 2023 one in particular came right after /u/Spez
| started cracking mod heads, and was full of "fuck spez"
| right up until the end.
| MrMorden wrote:
| Fewer. </davos>
| swader999 wrote:
| I've been sans Reddit for a couple of years now and it's been
| very low stress.
| dingnuts wrote:
| HN is just a glorified subreddit run under a different domain
| name lol
| dakial1 wrote:
| I fear that with popularity HN will become the horrible place
| that reddit is today....
| p1mrx wrote:
| More like _Sans Reddit_ , har har am I right?
|
| Discompliments to /u/spez.
| fsckboy wrote:
| s/\/u\/spez\\./\/user\/spez ./
| pxeger1 wrote:
| s%/u/spez.%/user/spez .%
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| any explanation of why they embarked on a custom font? it's not
| such a simple task and most people wouldn't really appreciate the
| difference if they used arial for everything
| supperrtadderr wrote:
| Someone wanted to make work for themself.
|
| Or justify themself being present at their "job". :)
| nullindividual wrote:
| To me, it looks like creating a font isn't terribly difficult
| based on https://kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_font.html.
|
| That said, I'm a no-talent hack and I'm sure any font I created
| would look like I ate and subsequently vomited off-brand
| crayons onto the screen.
| agluszak wrote:
| I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have
| a custom font
| Eumenes wrote:
| Hipster design teams. Typography lets them be "artists",
| returning to bohemian roots. In reality, they're just designing
| apps around dark patterns or whatever the product management
| team thinks is righteous. Companies can't say no, they're in
| demand, so its really a "20% project".
| gsk22 wrote:
| Is typography not an art? So how then are they not artists?
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| I'm curious about it too, I'd love to read something by someone
| with more specific insight than I have.
|
| I know that people _love_ to make fonts: it 's a really common
| hobby activity and people make incredible fonts all the time
| just for the hell of it. I don't really know how that
| translates so commonly into the institutional will to do it
| that every company seems to have. I can kinda guess but it's
| just conjecture.
| patternMachine wrote:
| It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based
| on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you
| own it -- no more fees.
| sonicanatidae wrote:
| And this sucks because Calibri is an awesome font. ;)
| brianfryer wrote:
| Licensing costs. It's cheaper to design your own typeface than
| to license others when a platform reaches a large scale.
| adamrezich wrote:
| I didn't either, until I tried typing a capital F, followed by
| a period, followed by a (regular, non-curly) quotation mark, on
| Twitter, and saw how it condensed it down far too much into an
| ugly mess--"oh, designers just have too much time on their
| hands."
| bamazizi wrote:
| Part of it has to do with licensing costs but also "brand-able"
| ownership.
|
| Say if you use Arial or Helvetica for your logo, then it's a
| generic typeface easily reproduced by whoever else that has
| them installed on their computer. So often, many brands for
| their logo take a generic font and customize it to make it
| their own. However, when you customize a font for a logo the
| font file itself is not customized, just the vector version of
| it for the character of the brand name. So if you want to
| extend the usage of the font style to say headline text or
| advertising text, then you need a whole custom built font.
| Custom fonts cost money, but picking a pre-existing "designed"
| typeface from other type foundries cost a lot more than getting
| a custom font. So two birds with one stone, you get a unique
| font for your brand and don't pay additional licensing since
| you own it.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38465233
|
| Specimen site: https://redditsans.s-ings.com/
| wffurr wrote:
| >> Yes, Snoo (and our brand colors and typography) is getting a
| makeover to help better reflect how our growing user base uses
| Reddit. These changes will help redditors worldwide continue
| engaging in conversations with each other.
|
| And yet they're not addressing how non-redditors engage with
| content on their site. Any day you want to stop nagging about
| the app or just show me all the dang comments would be great.
| In the meantime, there's always teddit.
| nailer wrote:
| Snoo looks like he has a beard now:
|
| https://www.redditinc.com/assets/images/site/_1440xAUTO_crop...
| nullindividual wrote:
| Looks like snoo is working through the night but hasn't
| stopped hitting the whisky bottle prepping for that IPO.
| quitit wrote:
| They've lost track of why the old logo resonated.
| meepmorp wrote:
| I'm not sure management ever understood what resonated
| about any part of reddit.
| munchler wrote:
| I see Reddit has entered its "rearranging the deck chairs on the
| Titanic" phase.
| firebot wrote:
| It's a sinking shit show.
| bsimpson wrote:
| I'm surprised to see a new brand font in nearly-2024 that doesn't
| have variable axes.*
|
| * https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc...
| mike_d wrote:
| The font is almost 4 years old at this point.
| crazygringo wrote:
| According to the blog post it's new today:
|
| https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-
| a-m...
|
| "We're introducing new bespoke typefaces, Reddit Display, and
| Reddit Sans."
| firebot wrote:
| Those are such beautiful glyphs.
| StevePerkins wrote:
| What an interesting thread to read. "Typography aficionados" are
| one of the most ardent and vocal subcultures within the Hacker
| News community. Any given post may be hijacked at any time, for a
| meta-discussion about the font choices on that post's linked web
| page.
|
| When a post actually IS about a new font, people dissect that
| latest microscopic riff on Helvetica like whiskey snobs
| describing a spirit's nose and mouthfeel.
|
| However, a strong cross-cutting theme on HN is "hating Reddit
| even though you obviously spend a lot of time there". It's a
| clash of the titans, and a real role-reversal... this may be the
| first time I've ever seen a post _about_ fonts mostly hijacked by
| something else instead.
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