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Re: Nebula Sans

#91

Post by mbo »

Destiner wrote: post #64
bearjaws wrote: post #46

Swear whenever your company decides to invent its own font its like a version of "The Headquarters Curse". You had nothing else better to spend your teams time on so might as well make a new font that 10% of your customers will notice if you are lucky. They could have just picked any other font and used it. It's a video streaming website, how much text content is there vs video content? Headquarter Curse: A theory su…

oh no, an indie company is having fun instead of increasing the shareholder’s value!

you should have seen the reaction when Are.na collaborated with Dinamo on a new version of Arial (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012995) - like, are we not allowed to make art for arts' sake?

Re: Nebula Sans

#92

Post by etchalon »

gralab wrote: post #82
etchalon wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Why bother doing something original when there's something generic that's good enough" is certainly one way to approach things.

No. You know that's not what I'm saying. There are many other very respectable typefaces available that they could have used. This one, while it may be custom made, *looks* generic. If I never saw this post, I would have zero clue they made it in-house. This is a PR stunt to get attention on sites like this.

There are so very, very many things you're missing here.

Re: Nebula Sans

#94

Post by dumpHero2 »

Destiner wrote: post #64
bearjaws wrote: post #46

Swear whenever your company decides to invent its own font its like a version of "The Headquarters Curse". You had nothing else better to spend your teams time on so might as well make a new font that 10% of your customers will notice if you are lucky. They could have just picked any other font and used it. It's a video streaming website, how much text content is there vs video content? Headquarter Curse: A theory su…

oh no, an indie company is having fun instead of increasing the shareholder’s value!

Or passing the income to it's creators

Re: Nebula Sans

#95

Post by yoz-y »

I subscribe to nebula. However what i would really like to have is to automatically mark any videos watched on nebula as watched on YouTube.

Re: Nebula Sans

#96

Post by meerita »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #75
meerita wrote: post #56

I went to the website and the letter-spacing is something they maybe forgot to add to everything. I just tried letter-spacing: -0.05rem; and everything looks more readeable and the font shines even better.

How did you do that? I noticed the spacing was very wide between leters,it bothered me.

Opened the inspector, add letter-spacing to a general rule they have for all text elements.

Re: Nebula Sans

#97

Post by elinfame »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #9

The differences are really, really subtle, I'd bet most people (including me) would have a really hard time telling them apart. I agree with that one person (I can't recall when or where I read this) who said modern typography is getting so frivolous about doing personalised typographic families for startups instead of extending the existing ones to cover more languages and scripts than latin. But as they say here, "…

para la plata baila el mono -- Wilfrido Vargas 1994

Re: Nebula Sans

#98

Post by dramm »

In what Universe does worrying about the typeface of your startup effort matter? Google for one has some just lovely free to use high quality typefaces. Do I care about design, hell yes, for one I worked for Adobe helping introduce InDesign, etc. but this makes no sense.

Re: Nebula Sans

#99

Post by notahacker »

OtherShrezzing wrote: post #86
bearjaws wrote: post #46

Swear whenever your company decides to invent its own font its like a version of "The Headquarters Curse". You had nothing else better to spend your teams time on so might as well make a new font that 10% of your customers will notice if you are lucky. They could have just picked any other font and used it. It's a video streaming website, how much text content is there vs video content? Headquarter Curse: A theory su…

Not sure this counts for Nebula. Font licenses (even very liberal ones) are a massive pain and expense for content creators who publish to multiple platforms in a variety of different mediums. Collectively their creator/owners will be paying thousands of dollars/month for their fonts. Something you’ve correctly assessed that a very low number of their viewers will notice or care about. Nebula can make one upfront pay…

Plenty of fonts with the same SIL open font license around already, especially if what you're after is a nice but generic modern sans serif font which 99% of users can't distinguish between.

Can't think of any reason why Nebula creators would go for this one other than to blend in with the platform's corporate house style for the 1% of users pedantic enough to notice and... well they could have picked an existing SIL open font for that if it had been about simply minimising creators' costs

I'd understand it way more if they were a big corporate creating something very distinctive and very closed source for their marketing material...

Re: Nebula Sans

#100

Post by bbx »

Feels like a mix of Open Sans and Source Sans Pro. These were all over the web about 12 years ago. They got well with Montserrat in all caps and Merriweather: https://www.fubiz.net/

Whitney was the main font of Stripe when Benjamin De Cock initially redesigned the brand. It was one of the most beautiful websites I'd ever seen (and still is): https://dribbble.com/shots/2974913-Home

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