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OH no Type Company
Company blog · ohnotype.co/blogdesignwriting
OH no Type Company is the company blog at ohnotype.co, writing about design and writing. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Oh No Type Company's blog for its type-design teaching posts, such as the letter-by-letter Ohno Type School lessons, and for its Vulfpeck typeface work. Comments mention these without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!
What Hacker News says?
Ooh, recognize this domain! Oh No created the official typeface for one of my favorite bands, Vulfpeck https://ohnotype.co/fonts/vulf There's some great lyrics animations in a lot of their music videos[1] done by Rob Stenson using an open-source library he authored called Coldtype[2]. I played around with it a few years ago, it's quite neat. You can animate variable fonts with python, and even hook it into midi trac…
Comment linking /fonts/vulf
on “Ohno Type School: A (2020)”Submitted Ohno Type School: A (2020) as a story · 209 points
HN discussion(2020), check https://ohnotype.co/blog/tagged/teaching for letters other than A.
Comment linking /blog/tagged/teaching
on “Ohno Type School: A (2020)”Submitted The Process of Polymath Typeface (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou’ve picked a difficult way to make your first typeface. A monoline design with a strict vector grid doesn’t leave a lot of room for the kind of optical adjustments needed for balanced and readable letter shapes. But I think even if you want to be strict about those restrictions there is a lot of room for improvement in consistency and composition of each shape. I started to write actionable suggestions about indi…
Comment linking /blog/ohno-type-school-a
on “Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders”Submitted Ohno Type School as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started in Type Design (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ohno Softie, the softest font yet from OH no Type Co as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write someone’s name on something as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
