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Frere-Jones Type
Company blog · frerejones.com/blogdesign
Frere-Jones Type is the company blog at frerejones.com, writing about design. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Frere-Jones Type site, the typography studio of Tobias Frere-Jones, for its writing on type design, including a post on optical adjustment of typefaces. Most comments only name the site as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Frere-Jones Type is a type design practice in New York City.
What Hacker News says?
I think you’re referring to “optical sizing” in fonts. In essence, fonts at small sizes are more robust and large sizes have more detail. Very much like comic books illustration, for example. If you blow up a small face on a comic strip and compare to a big face, the big face will have a lot more fine detail. The small face will be simplified and more gestural, so it can be “read” at small sizes. Tobias Frere-Jones…
Comment linking /blog/typeface-mechanics-002
on “Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces”Submitted The making of Exchange, a new typeface as a story · 120 points
HN discussionFrere-Jones has his own company https://frerejones.com/
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on “Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co”Submitted Scrambled Eggs and Serifs as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSeems they've already changed the name to Hoefler & Co on their website[1]. Also interesting that Frere-Jones isn't exclusively using ahis own typefaces on his own website[2], likely due to them being owned by Hoefler. H&FJ make some of my favorite typefaces; it's a shame their relationship has come to an end. 1. http://www.typography.com/ 2. http://www.frerejones.com/ EDIT: Whoops, looks like MyFonts attributed it…
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on “Font War: Inside the Design World's $20M Divorce”Submitted Typeface Mechanics: 001 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt isn't really a technical problem, so I don't think it makes sense to look for a technical solution. But it's not complicated; like kerning and optical adjustment of letter shapes, someone with an eye for it will need to adjust the size of each logo manually so they all "feel" equal and look good together. For reference, Tobias Frere-Jones has an interesting blog post about optical adjustment of typefaces [1]. As…
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on “Show HN: Webfont for Press Logos”Submitted Designing Gotham as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso check out Tobias Frere-Jones [1], Johnathon Hoefler's partner who was allegedly screwed out his share of their partnership. [2] 1. https://frerejones.com 2. https://nymag.com/news/features/jonathan-hoefler-tobias-frer...
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on “Sweden Sans Font”Submitted Designing Gotham – the story behind the type family on its 25th anniversary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Type for New York’s Newest Most Historic Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archeology and Invention: Designing Empirica as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tobias Frere-Jones Opens Foundry as a story · 1 points
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