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Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by bugsmith »

ashton314 wrote: post #135
doginasuit wrote: post #68

My favorite font of all time is Fira Sans. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Sans Understated yet elegant, you wouldn't immediately notice it is different from your default sans-serif. But it has a soothing regularity that makes it easy to absorb in large quantities and the lowercase g is a quiet encouragement to drink your tea with your pinky raised.

Erik Spiekermann is a genius. He made Fira Sans to be a total antithesis to Helvetica. Now, I like Helvetica, but I also love the pure character of Fira Sans and it’s my go-to sans serif. Here’s a better link for Fira Sans: https://carrois.com/fira/ Also, if you have Fira Sans installed on your computer, you can use it in Slack with `/slackfont Fira Sans’

I was excited about trying that in slack but got:

> /slackfont is not a valid command. In Slack, messages that start with “/” are interpreted as commands.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by iuvyfthknjv »

It’s a good font. Nothing special about it. Not remarkable in any way, but not bad either. Just a perfectly OK font. Not sure why this is on HN but here we are.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by iuvyfthknjv »

dramm wrote: post #98

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.

Ah, so you are one of the many to blame for InDesign’s many, and I mean MANY, annoyances, weirdness, quirkiness, failures to follow other Adobe app standards and general fuck ups? Good to know.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by delta_p_delta_x »

6581 wrote: post #175
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.

> OLED market share increasing I'd anticipate Windows moving away from it at some point too

Quite the contrary: many new OLEDs are moving back to an RGB stripe subpixel arrangement.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by isidjwjdjefj »

Why is everyone here acting like they shut down operations on all divisions and teams JUST to design and build this one font?

I’m willing to bet that the design team that worked on this font was not in charge of coding, business, finances, deals or anything else besides design.

Is it a revolutionary font? Not in the slightest. It’s just a “fine” font for all intents and purposes. But let’s not play this childish game of “they shouldn’t have wasted time with this and should have done that instead!”. We’re all grown ups here (hopefully), we ought to know better.

Re: Nebula Sans

#196

Post by isidjwjdjefj »

elAhmo wrote: post #43

Oh man, I wish I had free time and money to spend designing and releasing a new font.

Maybe if you spent less time being snarky on topics you clearly have no understanding of you’d get your wish.

The implication that this is an effort entirely devoid of value is so ridiculous it borders on stupidity.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by isidjwjdjefj »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #31

It's always interesting to see companies spend time, money, and make a big deal (websites even, apparently) solely for a Sans Serif font. One that, at least on my system, is blocked by uBlock Origin and gets converted into Noto Sans (which should be default, screw your fonts, respect my browser's font please!)

I’ll never understand why you lot pretend like graphic design doesn’t matter. Thats so childish and narrow minded it borders on pathetic. C’mon now. Let’s act like the grown ups we all (hopefully) are.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by zestyping »

It's a crime in this day and age to make a new font with an uppercase I and lowercase L that look the same.

It's hard to believe people are still designing new fonts with this glaring error. In 2026!

Re: Nebula Sans

#200

Post by suprjami »

jacobolus wrote: post #133
suprjami wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is even more baffling because Source Sans is open under SIL which permits free commercial use without restriction. So if the goal was to save money, wouldn't the smart move be to use Source Sans for $0, instead of paying the designer of Source Sans to make some very minor tweaks to end up with another SIL font?

You are misunderstanding. The Nebula people were previously using the Whitney typeface. The organization that produced/sells Whitney changed ownership and the licensing became prohibitively expensive overnight. They wanted something that could be a drop-in replacement for Whitney with the same letter sizes and spacing, so that they could put it into all of their products without needing any other redesign. They could…

That makes more sense now. Thank you for the explanation!
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