A Checklist for Choosing Type
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A Checklist for Choosing Type
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Re: A Checklist for Choosing Type
#2Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
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#4> Comic Sans is perfect for setting children’s activity timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It’s perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific breakthroughs.
Simon Peyton Jones would beg to differ. :)
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#5Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
I don't know if it's what's happening here, but it's a common phenomenon in HN that a post starts a trend of posts with a similar theme. People discuss a subject, they post some links to related projects in comments, other people wander into those links and find them or the links that those pages have worthy of their own HN posts.
Re: A Checklist for Choosing Type
#6Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
Overall people in software cannot stop talking about fonts
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#7> Comic Sans is perfect for setting children’s activity timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It’s perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific breakthroughs. Simon Peyton Jones would beg to differ. :)
I enjoyed his talk on adding lambdas to Excel, in general, but one particular bright spot was when someone asked why the slides weren't Comic Sans and he explained (my paraphrase...) that he had to give the talk outside Haskell circles and the rest of the world doesn't love him enough to forgive Comic Sans.
Re: A Checklist for Choosing Type
#8Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
At one time today, there were at least four typeface-related threads on the front page. That seems far outside the average.
Re: A Checklist for Choosing Type
#9Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
I'm goin to guess that the recent Commit Mono post started it, it fizzled out a tad, and the Sweden font post yesterday kicked off some additional interest
Re: A Checklist for Choosing Type
#10Interesting, but I was hoping for something more prescriptive. And all the articles seem to be out of order. There is no "first" article for learning about typefaces.