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Tim Brown
Personal blog · nicewebtype.com/notesdesignwriting
Tim Brown's personal blog at nicewebtype.com covers design and writing. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to Tim Brown's nicewebtype.com as a collection of links to web typography resources. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-08
What Hacker News says?
My colleague Tim Brown maintains a website containing links to all sorts of web typography resources: http://nicewebtype.com/
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on “Balancing text for better readability”Submitted Type sellers, web fonts, and Typekit as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou don't have to use a service like Typekit to use a pretty webfont. The advantage Typekit has is that it gives you access to a lot of font choices to use (which you wouldn't otherwise have access to) and hosts/serves up the fonts for you. Sites not using Typekit are most likely just using their own @font-face solution and hosting the fonts on their own server (which can also be a faster solution than loading in 3r…
Comment linking /notes/2009/10/30/how-to-use-css-font-face/
on “Ask HN: Best Pretty Web Font Solutions?”Submitted Leave default font-size alone and embrace the em as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey OP, I've got a couple design tips for you. - Work on the typography. You need more leading aka the line-height property in CSS. If you only fix one thing, this should be it. - Everything is squished together. White space is your friend. Use lots of padding. I recommend a grid system of some sort. 960.gs is good for non-responsive websites and easy to use and understand. If you wanna to responsive check out Found…
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on “Beginners' guide to learning Ruby, Rails and related technologies”Submitted Web font licensing: the basic idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussion