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Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by worksonmine »

cinntaile wrote: post #5
elromulous wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/7ytlz I think we hugged it to death.

It's kind of sad that sweden.se can't handle a couple of thousand visitors under a short period of time.

It is, my Pi 2 could handle 10,000 req/s and this page could easily be cached or even static. What kind of traffic does the HN frontpage generate?

Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by karaterobot »

RandallBrown wrote: post #8

It's called Sweden Sans, but it appears to have serifs on at least some of the letters like lowercase i and l. Am I misunderstanding what a serif is? Or am I understanding what sans means in this context?

Yeah, it looks like there are some slab serifs in there. I guess you could generously say that serif and sans-serif are handles on either end of what is really a spectrum. It may be simpler to call it a sans-serif, because if you called it a serif, people would expect it to be more serify.

Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by arp242 »

cinntaile wrote: post #5
elromulous wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/7ytlz I think we hugged it to death.

It's kind of sad that sweden.se can't handle a couple of thousand visitors under a short period of time.

sweden.se is fine; it's identity.sweden.se that's having some problems. This is a really limited site with a target audience that's normally in the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of developers. It's probably just running on a cheap server/VPS somewhere, which is fine almost all of the time.

Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by sakjur »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #6

I think this is just for some site focussed at promoting Sweden's image to foreigners? I don't think I've ever seen this font in use in normal communications from the Swedish state, living here in Sweden. I like the Swedish Tax Agency's design language, if it can be called that. I don't think they use this Sweden Sans, but I'm not sure what they do use.

I believe Sweden Sans is used as title typeface on the most recent national ID-cards and passports.

Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

RandallBrown wrote: post #8

It's called Sweden Sans, but it appears to have serifs on at least some of the letters like lowercase i and l. Am I misunderstanding what a serif is? Or am I understanding what sans means in this context?

The regular and bold versions probably qualify as slab serifs, but the “book” weight is a true sans. (Might be easiest to see if you just download the font and look at the OTF files.)

Re: Sweden Sans

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

RandallBrown wrote: post #8

It's called Sweden Sans, but it appears to have serifs on at least some of the letters like lowercase i and l. Am I misunderstanding what a serif is? Or am I understanding what sans means in this context?

What you are not understanding is how corps are selling fonts. The Font is garbage.
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