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Dinamo Typefaces
Company blog · abcdinamo.com/newsdesign
Dinamo Typefaces is the company blog at abcdinamo.com, writing about design. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
ABC Dinamo is a type foundry site. HN readers link its typeface pages (Favorit, Arizona), its licensing page, and comment on font licensing, with the comments citing the pages rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dinamo is a Berlin-based type design studio offering retail and bespoke typefaces, design software, research, and consultancy.
What Hacker News says?
It's the font design: https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/favorit
Comment linking /typefaces/favorit
on “Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments”Submitted Kylie Minogue song about a typeface as a story · 257 points
HN discussion> I didn't see mention anywhere of a license. This page, which is poorly designed¹ to the point that it supports the idea that this is all an in-joke rather than the work of pros, appears to suggest that this is a purely commercial work: https://abcdinamo.com/licenses ¹ Seen while scanning: (1) Scroll down, then up. Boo. (2) Leading cramped beyond "style preference". (3) Bulleted list badly styled in a way that requ…
Comment linking /licenses
on “Areal, Are.na's new typeface”Submitted We Design Our Typeface Campaigns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe market evolved into this state. Traditionally fonts were licensed as as software licenses per machine. It was not great but it was a standard. With web there was more opportunity to change price based on impressions. But for big projects - logos, tv ads etc. you almost always need a special license. The problem is to make fonts cheap for solo designer doing local prints where 60usd is a lot vs designer in agency…
Comment linking /news/about-our-pricing
on “Font licensing is ill, please help heal it”Submitted The Return of Gravity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionApple's San Francisco has a serif counterpart in New York. ABC Dinamo has a dual serif/sans typeface called Arizona^[1]. It even has that set as a variable axis! [1]: https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/arizona
Comment linking /typefaces/arizona
on “A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived”