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Ok, it is a font alright. To me, it looks exactly as all the other fonts I have on my OS already, but I guess that's just how it is if you are not in the font bubble.
It can absolutely be a part of a texts character and reducing this entire field to a *bubble* is a feeble attempt at spinning ignorance as a virtue.
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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
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https://nebulasans.com/img/handgloves.png
I saw that. Here's a quick similar comparison between Nebula Sans and Source Sans I just whipped up: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj
I'd rather use Source Sans then.
Little 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…
Anyway, I'd like sans serif fonts more if they were readable, including being able to distinguish Weird Al from Weird AI.
> 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.
Their samples sentences also include things such as "We’re assembling a crew for a heist" so maybe not take these things too seriously?
Little 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…
Nebula has flat terminals, Whitney has angled terminals.
(There’s a lot of other differences but that one effects most letter shapes).
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I saw that. Here's a quick similar comparison between Nebula Sans and Source Sans I just whipped up: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj
So, it's worse than Source Sans because it removed the differentiation between a lowercase L and an uppercase i. I'd rather use Source Sans then.
* the latest OTF
* the Source Sans 2.020 TTF, which is the last version (at least, the last version released in the GitHub repository[0]) that has manual hinting
Little 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…
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.
> The majority of the adjustments we made were to adapt the metrics of Source Sans to better match those of Whitney SSm
Ok, it is a font alright. To me, it looks exactly as all the other fonts I have on my OS already, but I guess that's just how it is if you are not in the font bubble.
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer who gave a talk called (something to the effect of) “why do we need so many typefaces”. At one point, Erik simply shows a slide with “this is why”, in what is clearly the Marlboro font. Fonts have different metrics which affect recognisability, legibility, and understanding. There are fonts which evoke a feeling (think heavy metal band), others which are practical (exaggerated…
The fonts we actually use are interchangeable, and people outside the font bubble won't even notice the differences.