No smallcaps variant? Disappointing honestly.
well if they don't need it
Nebula Sans
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#72No variable format in 2025?
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#73Little PSA: a) This is a clone of Whitney, an incredibly beautiful and unique typeface from 2004 b) Whitney was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones c) He was an equal co-founder of the H&fJ foundry d) He designed the vast majority of their most famous fonts, including Gotham, Archer and Armada e) Somehow, for years, Hoefler never did the paperwork to confirm FJ's co-ownership f) When pressed, he instead kicked FJ out, kep…
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#74> We believe in facts, science, and human rights The font looks ok. This is an off putting sample sentence though. It sounds like a secular, pseudo-liturgical version of the Nicene creed.
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#75I can't believe I am learning of tabular options for fonts from this post... I have always just used a different monospace font for the numbers, didn't realize it was an option that some fonts supported. {font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums}
Not only that, some fonts have a vast number of tweaks available: https://rsms.me/inter/#features
Inter is a great suggestion to try out modern font features. The lab is really useful: https://rsms.me/inter/lab/
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#76No variable format in 2025?
> No variable format in 2025?
You're presumably referring to variable fonts, aka multiple master fonts/MMF.
Making a multiple master font is massively more work than discrete variations. The complete total number of MM fonts in existence is a 2- or 3-digit number, out of at least tens of thousands of fonts, if not millions.
Demanding or implying that fonts should be MM in 2025 is just plain out of touch with reality.
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#77> We believe in facts, science, and human rights The font looks ok. This is an off putting sample sentence though. It sounds like a secular, pseudo-liturgical version of the Nicene creed.
It's a font demo, what exactly is the problem? Are you paid to lobby for quick foxes and lazy dogs?
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#78I don't get how they call a font “readable” where the lowercase ell looks way too similar to the uppercase aye. I for one would not use such a font.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
All true, except it’s not really a Whitney clone. It’s Source Sans very lightly adjusted to match Whitney’s metrics. It looks and feels exactly like Source Sans to me. It’s a little strange to present it as a prestigious project with a minisite like this. Source Sans is nice and easy to read, but so overused it’s rarely a good starting point for a visual identity.
https://nebulasans.com/img/handgloves.png
I’m wondering why they’ve added the slanted top on ‘t’, but not the other letters: https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans?t=363
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