Shantell Sans (2023)
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Shantell Sans (2023)
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Re: Shantell Sans (2023)
#2Wow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts.
This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
Re: Shantell Sans (2023)
#3Dyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.
Re: Shantell Sans (2023)
#4I like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.
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#5the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont.
Re: Shantell Sans (2023)
#6gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art.
superb.
totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
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#7The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.
The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
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#8Is it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.
Re: Shantell Sans (2023)
#9First time seeing it and this is already my favourite hand-written font. Great work!
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#10Dyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.
I am not dyslexic, but the roboto example also highlighted a very stark difference in readability for me! Especially after having gotten used to shantell sans reading up to that point, the roboto felt nigh-unreadable.