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Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by _thisdot »

ARandumGuy wrote: post #107
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…

Seconding this. I've been subscribed to Nebula for a couple years, as I watch a lot of video essayists on Youtube and like half of them are on Nebula. In addition to ad-free viewing, you also get: * No in-video sponsor segments * Exclusive videos (including some creators and series that upload primarily to Nebula) * Early access to some videos * Uncensored videos, as Nebula does not have the automatic content or copy…

Wish these guys did localised pricing. YT Premium costs around ~$12 annually in India. Nebula costs the same $60

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by ChrisRR »

t098i3 wrote: post #19
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.

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.

Saved them money on licensing their existing font, so why didn't they just move to another cheaper or free font?

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by phartenfeller »

ChrisRR wrote: post #170

Did it need a new font? Would none of the thousands of fonts already available have done the job?

You can apply that argument to almost everything in capitalism. But in this case here: who gets hurt and maybe they enjoyed creating it.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by Dormeno »

yoz-y wrote: post #95

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.

Same, and I'd like a browser extension to tell me automatically if the same or a better version of the video on YT is on Nebula.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by 6581 »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #28

I posted this comment[1] in the previous discussion. Reposting here, because I don't like slightly-derivative typefaces that are just FontForge tweaks of a typeface that was designed from the ground up, even less if they have given it an entirely new name. All glyphs are indistinguishable from Source Sans. The 'thin'/'light' weights are kerned further apart (and in my opinion, worse) than in Source Sans. Given these,…

> The result looks quite bad on Windows and Linux.

GTK4 doesn't even support subpixel rendering any more, and with OLED market share increasing I'd anticipate Windows moving away from it at some point too.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

jacobolus wrote: post #165
Marha01 wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it more expensive that designing an entirely new font?

That's why they didn't design an entirely new font. Instead they made semi-automated modifications to a free font, and then tweaked a few specific characters afterwards. The result is not as good as what they had before, and not as good as it would have been if they hired a professional to design a new font from scratch, but it was cheap and solved their problem.

They took something workable and Arial-ised it. And now they're using a bland, mediocre font.

Fonts are weird voodoo. Good and bad choices can both make a measurable difference to ROI.

So I'm not convinced this is going to be the profit booster they hope.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by isolatedsystem »

bjoli wrote: post #151
pibaker wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judging from the kind of content creators nebula hosts I'd imagine they do in fact have the kind of nerdy audience that notices miniature font differences.

In some ways I feel that caring a lot about fonts is on the opposite side of the spectrum to whatever it is making a population feel their lives have more meaning during wartime or crisis. As a visual designer, sure, it is you job. As a computer user whose ultimate goal of using a computer is something else... I am kind of an old fart, but I often find that the best content is often found in conjunction with "font-fa…

I'm a mechanical engineering PhD who works on numerical computing, data analysis and the like. I've spent several hundreds of dollars on fonts. Because I like things being just so, because I like seeing the artefacts I produce being nice to look at, and because they're just plain beautiful.

Day to day, I use open source fonts that Butterick recommends. But once in a while, I like using just nice stuff. It's like a nice fountain pen for others.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by NoGravitas »

misstuned wrote: post #161
f4stjack wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is, google is an advertising company now the "ad-blocking makes all content free" is a temporary argument at best. At any rate, I like Nebula's curated content better than the ai-slop/clickbait slop Youtube provides. Only pet peeve I have is... jeffiot is in Nebula, Tom Scott is in Nebula, Lindsey Ellis is in Nebula... where is f4mi????????

I have both, and I find my YouTube home page way more diverse than Nebula. Nebula is an invite-only clique and they invite people who look like them. YouTube, for me, has a lot more British creators, a lot more people of colour, a lot more women creators, a bigger diversity of topics and subjects, a lot more deep technical stuff. Nebula is a lot of American guys discussing movies and politics, with only the very rece…

Wasn't Abigail PhilosophyTube, a British woman, one of the Nebula founders? I guess perhaps it has changed since the early days.I remember them kicking off JT Second Thought.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by msla »

Ah, sans-serif, where you can't tell the difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" because who needs letters that don't collide, right?

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by Anonyneko »

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 absolutely love the idea behind Nebula, but to this day there isn't a single creator there that I'm interested in actively following...

A big part of it is just my hobbies being different, but a no small part is that the videos are still the same YouTube videos that are first and foremost built to satisfy the algorithm. And since these are all people who are successful on YouTube, the concentration of such videos is higher than on actual YouTube.

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