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Re: Reddit Sans

#15

Post by patternMachine »

agluszak wrote: post #7

I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you own it — no more fees.

Re: Reddit Sans

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Post by brianfryer »

agluszak wrote: post #7

I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

Licensing costs. It’s cheaper to design your own typeface than to license others when a platform reaches a large scale.

Re: Reddit Sans

#17

Post by adamrezich »

agluszak wrote: post #7

I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

I didn't either, until I tried typing a capital F, followed by a period, followed by a (regular, non-curly) quotation mark, on Twitter, and saw how it condensed it down far too much into an ugly mess—"oh, designers just have too much time on their hands."

Re: Reddit Sans

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Post by wffurr »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #11

Blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38465233 Specimen site: https://redditsans.s-ings.com/

>> Yes, Snoo (and our brand colors and typography) is getting a makeover to help better reflect how our growing user base uses Reddit. These changes will help redditors worldwide continue engaging in conversations with each other.

And yet they're not addressing how non-redditors engage with content on their site. Any day you want to stop nagging about the app or just show me all the dang comments would be great. In the meantime, there's always teddit.

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