Good type against all odds(unsung.aresluna.org)
187 points by firloop | 24 comments
A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.
#fonts on Hacker News
37 stories tagged fonts, newest first.
Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana(furifont.antfu.me)
388 points by plaguna | 81 comments
Landing page for Furifont, a Japanese font that renders furigana readings above kanji via ligatures, with downloads and a customization builder.
Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font(typeof.net)
699 points by otobrglez | 286 comments
Homepage of Iosevka, an open-source sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font family, with download, customization, repository, and specimen links.
A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps(github.com)
380 points by sohkamyung | 62 comments
GitHub repository for a photo-based reconstruction of Commodore 64 keycap lettering, providing desktop fonts, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text(datocms.com)
51 points by steffoz | 31 comments
DatoCMS blog post on handling less common scripts like Myanmar in localization, including fixing dotted-circle rendering issues with Noto fonts.
Font where each token is equal-width(twitter.com)
24 points by ampdot | 10 comments
An X post showing a prototype font in which every LLM token is rendered at equal width, illustrating how models see text and their quirks.
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width(ampdot.mesh.host)
80 points by z-mach9 | 16 comments
A web tool and demo that compiles a font plus an LLM tokenizer into a token-space font where every token renders at equal width.
Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard(bastardica.mitpit.com)
836 points by MitPitt | 121 comments
Bastardica is a web tool that mixes two fonts by replacing every Nth glyph using OpenType ligatures, running Python client-side via WASM.
Nebula Sans(nebulasans.com)
448 points by GavinAnderegg | 180 comments
Landing page introducing Nebula Sans, a humanist sans-serif typeface designed for legibility in digital and print applications.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)(aresluna.org)
324 points by dcminter | 51 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous engraving font seen throughout Manhattan.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing(randsinrepose.com)
409 points by ExMachina73 | 198 comments
A Rands in Repose essay praising the typography of Blade Runner's title cards, set in Goudy Oldstyle, and reflecting on appreciating type design.
Decoy Font(mixfont.com)
689 points by ray__ | 153 comments
Mixfont experiment page for Decoy Font, a TTF font where each letter contains a decoy glyph intended to hide typed text from AI readers.
Shantell Sans (2023)(shantellsans.com)
376 points by aleda145 | 43 comments
Design process page telling the story of Shantell Sans, a handwriting-inspired marker-style typeface, with download links.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016)(typesetinthefuture.com)
463 points by _vaporwave_ | 59 comments
A Typeset in the Future blog post explaining typographic techniques that make text look futuristic, drawing on science fiction film and design conventions.
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font(arcade.pirillo.com)
437 points by rendx | 145 comments
FontCrafter is a free in-browser tool that converts scanned handwriting samples into installable font files like OTF, TTF, and WOFF2.
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri(reuters.com)
359 points by italophil | 615 comments
Reuters article reporting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to switch from Calibri back to Times New Roman; captured page shows a captcha.
Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays(emilysneddon.com)
1086 points by ChrisArchitect | 130 comments
Emily Sneddon's essay on Fran Sans, a typeface inspired by the segmented destination displays on San Francisco Muni light rail trains.
Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor(brutalita.com)
562 points by fibo | 75 comments
Brutalita is a browser-based experimental font and editor that lets users create, edit, and download their own monospace-style font.
Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall(joefatula.com)
530 points by JdeBP | 113 comments
Page presenting Two Slice, a 2-pixel-tall font with upper and lowercase variants, a live text box for trying it, and a CC BY-SA download.
Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU(osor.io)
390 points by ibobev | 121 comments
A blog post by a graphics programmer explaining techniques for rendering crisp, high-quality text on the GPU.
You wouldn't steal a font(fedi.rib.gay)
1308 points by todsacerdoti | 375 comments
A fediverse post on an Iceshrimp instance titled "You wouldn't steal a font"; the post content did not load in the capture.
Kermit: A typeface for kids(microsoft.design)
329 points by nmcfarl | 158 comments
Microsoft Design article introducing Kermit, a typeface designed to help children learn to read and write.
The hardest working font in Manhattan(aresluna.org)
711 points by robinhouston | 104 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous font seen across Manhattan.
Comic Mono(dtinth.github.io)
382 points by rootforce | 101 comments
Download page for Comic Mono, a legible monospace font forked from Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns, with TTF downloads and a list of differences.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font(brailleinstitute.org)
719 points by fanf2 | 197 comments
Braille Institute page offering the free Atkinson Hyperlegible font, designed to improve readability for people with low vision.
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
586 points by microflash | 123 comments
A Glyph Drawing Club blog post describing a font that performs syntax highlighting on its own using OpenType color font features.
I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust(chevyray.dev)
456 points by azhenley | 95 comments
Blog post by Chevy Ray describing how he used Rust tooling to create a megapack of 175 pixel fonts.
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM(fuglede.github.io)
554 points by fuglede_ | 142 comments
Project page for llama.ttf, a font file that embeds a Llama language model and inference engine via HarfBuzz's Wasm shaper.
Tetris Font (2020)(erikdemaine.org)
693 points by Bluestein | 85 comments
Interactive Tetris Font by Erik and Martin Demaine that renders entered text as animated falling Tetris pieces, with GIF and SVG download options.
Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)(github.com)
373 points by lsferreira42 | 120 comments
GitHub repository for nanofont3x4, a tiny readable 3x4 pixel bitmap font with lowercase letters covering all ASCII symbols.
Monaspace(monaspace.githubnext.com)
480 points by davidbarker | 148 comments
Landing page for Monaspace, GitHub Next's superfamily of monospaced fonts for code, with download and learn-more links.
B612 Font Family(b612-font.com)
393 points by OliverGilan | 83 comments
Homepage for B612, an open source, highly legible font family designed and tested for aircraft cockpit screens.
A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis(linyangchen.com)
453 points by _emacsomancer_ | 124 comments
Personal blog post by Lin Yangchen about typesetting a thesis in the 17th-century Fell Types font instead of uniform digital fonts like Caslon and Garamond.
Sweden Sans(identity.sweden.se)
421 points by 2143 | 167 comments
Sweden's official brand guidelines page on typography, featuring the national typeface Sweden Sans.
London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface(github.com)
419 points by nickswalker | 60 comments
GitHub repository with a set of dot matrix fonts styled after TfL's London Underground arrivals boards.
Times New Bastard(github.com)
475 points by orhmeh09 | 127 comments
GitHub repository for Times New Bastard, a font that is Times New Roman except every seventh letter is set in a jarring sans serif.
Cantonese Font with Pronunciation(visual-fonts.com)
337 points by skogstokig | 165 comments
Product page for a Cantonese font that displays color-coded Jyutping pronunciation and tones above Chinese characters.