I guess with less users and moderators they have more time to explore their hobbies over at reddit now.
Fewer.
Reddit Sans
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Re: Reddit Sans
#42I'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.
According to the blog post it's new today:
https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-a-m...
"We’re introducing new bespoke typefaces, Reddit Display, and Reddit Sans."
Re: Reddit Sans
#43First of all, this is a surprisingly nice font. Modern, clean, it has personality but it's legibile. Well done!
It has some similarities to Product Sans that Google has been rolling out in its interfaces [1] -- suggesting Futura [2], but Google's version is clunky and backwards-looking, while Reddit Sans is far more elegant and up-to-date.
I do wonder if they're going to use it for the body text of conversation threads though? Because it still feels more like a display typeface than body text, with its highly geometric styling. It looks great in the tag bubbles they show, and it'll be superb for headlines and things, but I'm not sure I'd want to read comments in it -- but their blog post suggests that's what it's for.
Using this geometric styling is what Google's done with all of its Workspace interface now (Gmail, Docs, etc.) and I think it's been a big mistake. Futura has always been best as a display font, not for body text, and I don't understand why Google has moved from Roboto to Product Sans for things like menus or e-mail subject lines.
Re: Reddit Sans
#44.woff2 file sizes of >50kb each doesn't rock me off my chair though.
Re: Reddit Sans
#45In my lay opinion, this font needs a 500 Medium weight.
Also needs more spacing between the glyphs as the weight increases.
Re: Reddit Sans
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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....
It seems to be the life cycle of digital communities. There's a certain threshold of critical-mass popularity where quality of content almost seems to become inversely proportional to quantity of people in the community. That threshold is a moving target, but it certainly seems to manifest around the same time as people start throwing around the letters IPO; or at least, when the community is big enough for some MBA to come in and try and squeeze them for profit.
I admit I'm unclear on the exact nature of HN and YC, but with YC being a VC, and my assumption that HN is a property of YC, I think two big things HN has going for it is that it's probably not going to IPO as a result of that situation and dang does a fantastic job moderating (there's something to be said for a well moderated community, most don't appreciate that).
Never know when company will decide it's time for a pivot and shake things up though.
Re: Reddit Sans
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The font is almost 4 years old at this point.
According to the blog post it's new today: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-a-m... "We’re introducing new bespoke typefaces, Reddit Display, and Reddit Sans."
First commit was on April 7, 2020 https://github.com/reddit/redditsans/commit/08de53e01be8e8c2...
Re: Reddit Sans
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fear that with popularity HN will become the horrible place that reddit is today....
It seems to be the life cycle of digital communities. There's a certain threshold of critical-mass popularity where quality of content almost seems to become inversely proportional to quantity of people in the community. That threshold is a moving target, but it certainly seems to manifest around the same time as people start throwing around the letters IPO; or at least, when the community is big enough for some MBA…
HN seems immune to VC pressures specifically because it's owned by a VC.
Single core process, single server, single moderator. No react, no chasing growth. It's actually right-sized or even undersized because it's intentionally a loss leader.
Re: Reddit Sans
#49I'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...
There is some work to do still[1], but a variable version will probably be available once the fonts are released on the Google Fonts service.
Re: Reddit Sans
#50.woff2 file sizes of >50kb each doesn't rock me off my chair though.
The large size is due to the number of glyphs and alternate styles. If you want a smaller footprint, I'd suggest subsetting the font as needed.
There are also 6 ready-made subsets[1], each about 15kb, matching these unicode ranges. These are set up to work with the @font-face unicode-range property[2].
A: U+0020-00BF
B: U+00C0-00FF
C: U+0100-01FF
D: U+0200-0FFF
E: U+1000-1FFF
F: U+2000-FFFF
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...