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Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by pibaker »

mbo wrote: post #91
Destiner wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Hacker News gets mad if you deviate a little from the usual profit maximizing routine to do something a little humanistic. And then they keep upvoting articles on how corpo streamlining sucks all life out and how the modern society lost its humanistic spirit. You can't win. May very well just play you own game and enjoy it.

Re: Nebula Sans

#112

Post by gralab »

petesergeant wrote: post #33
gralab wrote: post #6

Waste of time and money on their part. There are more than enough typefaces in this world that look just like this one.

I just bought a Nebula subscription, and hadn't heard of it before, so there's some value there

Then this PR stunt worked I suppose. I still see no need to create yet another derivative sans-serif typeface. Especially for an online streaming service of all things.

Re: Nebula Sans

#113

Post by ChickeNES »

zeristor wrote: post #79
OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

I signed up for Nebula, it is a lot more for HD quality, which I though was sneeky. In the end I never got in the habit of opening Nebula to watch the content. I pay for Premium YouTube and have noticed when there's an in video ad you can skip through to the end of the ad, YouTube have set that up. I tend to watch 2 minute of several videos on rotation, I guess I should just put the Apple TV out of reach and I can't…

Yeah I...just never end up opening the Nebula app, which I honestly find harder to use than the Youtube app.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by t098i3 »

celsoazevedo wrote: post #54
t098i3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to their website this saved them a lot of money, plus they also made a documentary about making the font which is content for Nebula.

Where did the savings come from? Maybe they were licensing a paid font? I doubt saved them more money than using a free font.

In the documentary video, their CCO explained if they used a different existing font they would have had to rework a lot of their media for the different font metrics, while making their own allowed them to have a drop-in replacement.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by [deleted] »

gralab wrote: post #112
petesergeant wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a Nebula subscription, and hadn't heard of it before, so there's some value there

Then this PR stunt worked I suppose. I still see no need to create yet another derivative sans-serif typeface. Especially for an online streaming service of all things.

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Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by t098i3 »

gralab wrote: post #109
etchalon wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Explain.

In the documentary video, their CCO explained if they used a different existing font they would have had to rework a lot of their media for the different font metrics, while making their own allowed them to have a drop-in replacement.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by malnourish »

bonoboTP wrote: post #37
OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

> It happens so often on YouTube that I see a video recommended but think to myself "if I click this, am I going to get recommendations for terrible stuff for the next month? You can remove videos from your watch history. Or you can open the link in a private/incognito window. Google may still be able to connect it but I don't think it will impact your recommendations that way.

I suggest just turning off watch history/suggestions.

I only use YouTube when I want to watch something specific. If I find something I want to return to, I like it or bookmark it or add it to a playlist.

I feel like the only thing I'm missing is a home page which doesn't tell me I have watch history disabled.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by kzrdude »

OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

I guess Nebula is better for video watching, but without recommendations and video comments, it feels dead. I did pay for it for a year and then gave up. Is the problem me?
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