Yet another Hacker News

40 points Zm44 1 hour ago 19 comments

phenomen 1 hour ago | parent

I use Geist Sans and Mono for almost all of my projects. I'm looking forward to Fontsource/Google Fonts adding Serif to the repository.

droidjj 1 hour ago | parent

Sad that “crafted by hand” immediately makes me think Claude made it.

twodave 1 hour ago | parent

It obviously wrote the article so why not.

christophilus 27 minutes ago | parent

> Four variants, one axis

Dunno about the font, but the copy on this page is 100% Claude.

dcss_gardener 1 hour ago | parent

I like it. I'm not generally that enthusiastic about these corporate fonts (though I know why they do it) but it's good to see some strong opinions in the serifs. It's so much better than the exaggerated anachronistic ink traps that has become such a visual cliche of the 2020s internet.

apetresc 1 hour ago | parent

I'm into typography and I like trying out new fonts, but what's with the sudden flood of everyone making their own lately? I remember how novel and interesting it was a few years ago when, like, JetBrains Mono came out. Now it's like every code-adjacent company has their own. Is AI particularly good at font design or something?

dcss_gardener 1 hour ago | parent

A good part of it is simply license costs and obligations makes it attractive for certain kinds and sizes of businesses. But there are plenty good open source fonts now that could be used as a basis so that's not all of it.

The other is that people with an eye for design like fonts the way mushrooms like decaying wood. If you leave a designer unattended for too long fonts appear as if from nowhere.

blazarquasar 57 minutes ago | parent

Im not personally a fan of Geist, but its been around for years and it has been the default for create-next-app for a few years…

threetonesun 43 minutes ago | parent

Previously it was every company that made a device, before that any company with a text-heavy app like a Word Processor. I think if you stare at fonts long enough and have a design team you eventually make your own.

esafak 1 hour ago | parent

Pretty stylish. Thumbs up.

aabhay 1 hour ago | parent

Feels very Halloween-y especially with that vampire N and the sharp serifs. Not a candidate for my rotation.

throwaway219450 1 hour ago | parent

I hoped it was too, with the sort of glitchy portfolio image and the words being “midnight, raven, etc”

> and it was drawn to communicate messages powerfully both in the physical world and

.. in the ethereal?

rafram 1 hour ago | parent

Sans-serif for body, serif for headlines? Unconventional choice.

nerdo 46 minutes ago | parent

Outside-the-box big brain idea for font webpages with walls of gibberish: Make the font for the gibberish the font.

bryanhogan 20 minutes ago | parent

At least you can easily compare the different Geist fonts here: https://vercel.com/font?type=serif

poly2it 36 minutes ago | parent

The letterforms look good, but why is the kerning so off? It looks omitted in the graphics.

schainks 30 minutes ago | parent

Okay, the special dot choices are pretty pretttttty nify!

This font renders like trash on my 9 year old widescreen, but I am sure it will look gorgeous on a MBP display. Guess I found my excuse to upgrade!

hit8run 13 minutes ago | parent

Very hard to read in small sizes. It mushes together to a big mud ball for my eyes. Large is nice.

vconnor 4 minutes ago | parent

> At Vercel, Geist Sans runs the product.

Groan.