[HN Gopher] Behind the design: A deep dive into Aptos
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Behind the design: A deep dive into Aptos
Author : haxfenx
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-03-05 09:45 UTC (1 days ago)
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| asystole wrote:
| > ClearTypefont display technology
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| Did it get renamed? I thought it was just called ClearType?
| bradrn wrote:
| Looks like a typo for 'ClearType font display technology'.
| giva wrote:
| Is this font designed for HiDpI displays? It really looks bad on
| my fullhd laptop and on my 32 inch 4k monitor.
| waldothedog wrote:
| In what way does it look bad? Historically, digital-focus fonts
| have been drawn specifically to handle very lo res displays, or
| very small print applications (optical embellishment, ink
| traps, etc)... but given that type designers are notoriously
| detail oriented and that font files are collections of vectors,
| I can't see a reason why the design would lead to these
| effects. Ironically (since this is a Microsoft post) Windows
| often mangles type display, so can browser settings and CSS
| defaults/resets.
| waldothedog wrote:
| For clarification, that was a "in what way?" to get more
| information, not to dispute that it looks fugly for you.
| chfalck wrote:
| It's also possible this commenter is seeing a fallback
| default font if Atpos is not available / didn't download
| correctly on their system configuration
| giva wrote:
| It may as well be down to a matter of taste, but I found it
| quite harder to read.
|
| I tried to find what exactly i dislike about it, and the
| impression I get is that the weight and the spacing
| (kerning?) is inconsistent on the line. It reminds me a bit
| of linux desktop before the availability of decent free
| fonts.
| Const-me wrote:
| > In what way does it look bad?
|
| For example, on my 27" 4k display with 150% DPI scaling, I
| can't easily distinguish commas from dots.
|
| I've been using displays like that for a decade now. Aptos is
| the only font with that issue.
| shrubble wrote:
| That's a lot of words to not even show the typeface clearly at
| different sizes...
| ramraj07 wrote:
| Isnt the entire blog in that font?
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| Is it possible to easily download the full suite of Aptos
| variants?
|
| Did they commission expanded designs for the other four like they
| did for Aptos? Are there monospace or serif versions available?
| KingMob wrote:
| It's in the article, but tl;dr yes
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| I read the whole article before asking and just re-read it
| again. I don't see answers to either of my questions. I'm
| guessing from other clues in the article the answer to my
| second question is "no".
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Office will download the full suite of variants on request.
|
| For other download options (including licensing/redistribution
| for use outside of Office/Microsoft 365), it looks like
| Microsoft's usual deal with MonoType Foundry applies to Aptos
| as well and that you can make purchases at Fonts.com.
|
| https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/aptos...
| Solvency wrote:
| It cracks me up when Microsoft posts these infinitesimally niche
| design projects/articles, where they pretend to care about good
| design, and then utterly fail to deliver it systematically across
| the organization, let alone even fractionally.
|
| Remember when Google paid hundreds of freelancers a lot of money
| to come up with Material, and then how even that fizzled out?
| ipsum2 wrote:
| I can't think of a single Google interface that isn't on
| Material, though Material is on its 2nd or 3rd design iteration
| now.
| solarkraft wrote:
| Microsoft loves switching from one bad thing to another bad
| thing.
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