IBM Plex – A new typeface • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by ihuman » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:00 PM UTC

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

I can't even use the arrow keys, page up/down, or home/end to navigate with my keyboard. I hate the amount of noise I make scrolling through websites like this.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by weego » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

I've never experienced a site where you can't scroll back up before. And then the navigation is a tiny strip of colour that's already closed so you have no signposting as to what the hell is going on? Kudos on the most counter intuitive website I have ever seen.

distinctly IBM indeed.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by kashprime » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

nsxwolf wrote: post #22

Apple, Samsung, Netflix, now IBM... why does everyone need their own typeface? Is it to save on licensing fees? As a user, I don't really find these fonts very distinctive, so I don't associate them with their brands.

I guess they don't want to get the Papyrus treatment by Ryan Gosling: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/1/16392890/avatar-papyrus-f...

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by dexterdog » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

I switched my editor default from Liberation Mono to this and it is almost the identical font. The only thing I don't like is the mono is not sans-serif so I'll stick with Liberation.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by NegativeLatency » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

Looks a lot like DejaVu Sans Mono to me.

Also it is not easy to tell l (lowercase L) and 1 (the number 1) apart in their monospaced font.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by dexterdog » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

warent wrote: post #3

Am I the only one that finds this page clunky and awkward to navigate?

If you didn't there would be something wrong with you.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #25

Hmm, this is old right? I remember seeing this months ago.

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Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by tzakrajs » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:04 PM UTC

Stop using the word Plex. Stop.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by jf » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

It is a very "IBM" typeface indeed. It reminds me of the typeface that is inspired by the IBM 1403 printer: https://1403.slantedhall.com/

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

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Post by alonmower » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

csours wrote: post #14

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

It's almost like the UI designer took it as a personal challenge to see how horrible they could make the experience.

I read this comment thinking it was a "typical HN overreaction" but then looked at the page and oh my god you couldn't be more right