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Re: Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

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Post by wodenokoto »

timothya wrote: post #2

On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...

The lower-case a in the PDFs doesn't display the same as the lower case a in the linked website.

Re: Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

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Post by rread »

wodenokoto wrote: post #3
timothya wrote: post #2

On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...

The lower-case a in the PDFs doesn't display the same as the lower case a in the linked website.

And several letters look distorted in that pdf, in particular b, g, e, and o.

Re: Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

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Post by willyt »

timothya wrote: post #2

On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...

I don't know about San Francisco as I haven't really spent any time reading it. But there's something slightly odd about Roboto, I can't quite put my finger on it but it's like there is slightly too much bulge in some places. Does anyone else get this?

Re: Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

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Post by herghost »

willyt wrote: post #7
timothya wrote: post #2

On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...

I don't know about San Francisco as I haven't really spent any time reading it. But there's something slightly odd about Roboto, I can't quite put my finger on it but it's like there is slightly too much bulge in some places. Does anyone else get this?

yeah - the bottom left of the 'a' and the top left of the 'g' look to bulge a bit for me. I can't decide if it's a bit of an optical illusion though.

Re: Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

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Post by namuol »

> The typeface is licensed exclusively to registered third-party developers for the “design and development of applications for the Apple Watch”. [1]

Cool. Another font for web designers to wrongfully assume I have installed on my system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(2014_typeface)

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