Reddit Sans • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit Sans

#31

Post by firebot » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

Those are such beautiful glyphs.

Re: Reddit Sans

#32

Post by firebot » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

munchler wrote: post #14

I see Reddit has entered its “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” phase.

It's a sinking shit show.

Re: Reddit Sans

#33

Post by dingnuts » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

swader999 wrote: post #4

I've been sans Reddit for a couple of years now and it's been very low stress.

HN is just a glorified subreddit run under a different domain name lol

Re: Reddit Sans

#34

Post by kmeisthax » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

progval wrote: post #30

nicbou wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, that big pixel board thing they do once a year is a great idea. Some of these other things also led to fun community behaviours.

Not once a year, it was supposed to be a one off in 2017, and they did it again in 2022 and 2023.

The 2023 one in particular came right after /u/Spez started cracking mod heads, and was full of "fuck spez" right up until the end.

Re: Reddit Sans

#35

Post by mike_d » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:35 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #21

I'm surprised to see a new brand font in nearly-2024 that doesn't have variable axes.* * https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc...

The font is almost 4 years old at this point.

Re: Reddit Sans

#36

Post by dakial1 » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:37 PM UTC

dingnuts wrote: post #33

swader999 wrote: post #4

I've been sans Reddit for a couple of years now and it's been very low stress.

HN is just a glorified subreddit run under a different domain name lol

I fear that with popularity HN will become the horrible place that reddit is today....

Re: Reddit Sans

#37

Post by meepmorp » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

quitit wrote: post #28

nailer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snoo looks like he has a beard now: https://www.redditinc.com/assets/images/site/_1440xAUTO_crop...

They've lost track of why the old logo resonated.

I'm not sure management ever understood what resonated about any part of reddit.

Re: Reddit Sans

#38

Post by sonicanatidae » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:48 PM UTC

patternMachine wrote: post #15

agluszak wrote: post #7

I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you own it — no more fees.

And this sucks because Calibri is an awesome font. ;)

Re: Reddit Sans

#39

Post by gsk22 » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

Eumenes wrote: post #9

agluszak wrote: post #7

I don't really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

Hipster design teams. Typography lets them be "artists", returning to bohemian roots. In reality, they're just designing apps around dark patterns or whatever the product management team thinks is righteous. Companies can't say no, they're in demand, so its really a "20% project".

Is typography not an art? So how then are they not artists?

Re: Reddit Sans

#40

Post by StevePerkins » Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

What an interesting thread to read. "Typography aficionados" are one of the most ardent and vocal subcultures within the Hacker News community. Any given post may be hijacked at any time, for a meta-discussion about the font choices on that post's linked web page.

When a post actually IS about a new font, people dissect that latest microscopic riff on Helvetica like whiskey snobs describing a spirit's nose and mouthfeel.

However, a strong cross-cutting theme on HN is "hating Reddit even though you obviously spend a lot of time there". It's a clash of the titans, and a real role-reversal... this may be the first time I've ever seen a post about fonts mostly hijacked by something else instead.