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Rasmus Andersson
Personal blog · rsms.me · on HN as rasmusfabbeprogrammingdesignweb
Rasmus Andersson's personal blog at rsms.me covers programming, design and web. Since 2011, 95 different Hacker News readers have linked it 114 times, most often “Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Sometimes recommended · 9 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link rsms.me mostly for Inter, the open-source typeface and its feature and sample pages, and for Rasmus Andersson's tutorials on WebAssembly, setting up Node.js on EC2 and building a small language.
- Recommended for · 9 comments
- Praised as well-featured and well-designed, an equally awesome tutorial, and a good Node.js on EC2 tutorial.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces39 people · 46 mentions · first linked 2017-10-27
- Introduction to WebAssembly8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
- /inter/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-29
- Update on Move3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-31
- The Origins of the Awesomeness of Spotify3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-09
- The Interface font family2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-22
- Raster: Simple CSS Grid System2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-02
- Move - A programming language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-03
- Predicting Mouse Pointer Location2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-30
- A template for setting up Node.js-backed web apps on EC22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-23
What Hacker News says?
Primarily because they focus on interfaces, not publishing. Serif is traditionally used for legibility of long text. Sans always wins for actual interface design (at least those with some manner of complexity) because it's much less visually distracting when used in a variety of weights and sizes. Interfaces tend to have much more mixed usage so we usually go with sans. Generally just using the system font is fine f…
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on “Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display”Submitted Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces as a story · 664 points
HN discussionFor anyone like me who might think that this is a pretty looking typeface but not particularly fully featured, scroll down the page to this bit: https://rsms.me/inter/#features This is an amazingly well featured typeface where the author clearly has considered a number of use cases, particularly in terms of legibility at small sizes which is important for UI. This looks great! File size may be an issue for public we…
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on “Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces”Submitted The Interface font family as a story · 410 points
HN discussionCheckout the samples page: https://rsms.me/inter/samples/ I didn't notice the navbar at the top at first too!
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on “Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces”Submitted The Inter typeface family as a story · 339 points
HN discussionHere are some of the blogs I follow: https://tjcx.me/ https://blog.vjeux.com/ https://zachholman.com/ https://rsms.me/
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine as a story · 277 points
HN discussion> forgetting Or rather deliberately not including to decrease download size. Though OpenType variable fonts are a thing now. e.g. Inter https://rsms.me/inter/ has a variable version
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on “Text Rendering Hates You”Submitted Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor as a story · 177 points
HN discussionThe WASM Explorer is a good place to start. I wrote up a little blurb about it: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/previewing-the-webassembly... Lin Clark's Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly is also great: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webasse... Rasumus Andersson's WASM Intro dives deeper into the binary format and wasm semantics: https://rsms.me/wasm-intro Lastly, the WASM Community Group's page a…
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on “Firefox 52 released”Submitted Gotalk as a story · 132 points
HN discussionTry viewing source on the site before deeming my comment as noise: https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png
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on “The Interface font family”Submitted Pointermove event latency in web browsers as a story · 98 points
HN discussionHi Rasmus, I think that at the point size at which this is meant to be used—e.g. around 11px ( https://rsms.me/interface/lab/?size=11&compare=roboto ) —the differences between the two become harder to distinguish. The issue is really that the character of the type is going to be dictated by the systematic decisions: stroke weight, x-height, proportion, spacing. Starting from Roboto and not changing these parameters…
Comment linking /interface/lab/?size=11&compare=roboto
on “The Interface font family”Submitted PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB as a story · 76 points
HN discussionGlad you like it. Once Interface reaches a more stable state (i.e. more glyphs and kerning have been added), the intention is to submit it for inclusion on Google fonts. In the meantime, you can use https://rsms.me/interface/interface.css which always points to the latest release of the font, and is hosted on a CDN (by Cloudflare, backed by GitHub.)
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on “The Interface font family”Submitted Sol – a sunny little virtual machine (2012) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionHello Jack. I'm the creator of Interface. Indeed many glyphs's outlines comes from Roboto (though fitted into different glyph boxes.) The "playground" feature of the website even has a feature for comparing Interface with Roboto. When you do, and you look at the details, you'll find that Interface is actually quite different from Roboto, at least as far as "different" goes with utilitarian UI fonts. https://rsms.me/…
Comment linking /interface/lab/?size=22&compare=roboto
on “The Interface font family”Submitted Sol – a sunny little virtual machine (2012) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI used to do the same but even the San Francisco wouldn't look very good. I am now using Inter [1] as my system and browser font and it looks great. [1] https://rsms.me/inter/
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on “Gnome 40”Submitted Hue — a functional programming language for fun & play as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI really must recommend Inter[1]. It's also open-source and available as variable. [1] https://rsms.me/inter/
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on “Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts”Submitted A template for setting up Node.js-backed web apps on EC2 as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSystem font stacks are great what I’d like more are similar “magic” values to system-ui that provide reasonably metrics-matched local fonts. The biggest reason I use system font stacks is not as much to look native as it is to try to have similar text metrics across platforms without the overhead and quirks brought by webfonts. The system font does bring some advantages though, like on macOS/iOS where that font is S…
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on “System Font Stack”Submitted Designing a modern web-based application — Dropular.net as a story · 18 points
HN discussionInter is a great suggestion to try out modern font features. The lab is really useful: https://rsms.me/inter/lab/
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on “Nebula Sans”Submitted The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox back as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNot only that, some fonts have a vast number of tweaks available: https://rsms.me/inter/#features
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on “Nebula Sans”Submitted UILayer, Layer/DOM Webkit API from Spotify designer as a story · 8 points
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