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Type Network
Company blog · typenetwork.com/articlesdesign
Type Network is the company blog at typenetwork.com, writing about design. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Type Network's articles to explain OpenType font features such as contextual alternates and variable fonts. One commenter called an article's description good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
- /news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Thanks. https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-co... Was a good description. The "horoscope" example in how it connects the r and s is similar to what I meant. Having to create ligatures for that.
Comment linking /news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates
on “Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots”Submitted Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font as a story · 64 points
HN discussion> Can a font pick randomly between different versions of the same glyph? In theory, yes, OpenType Contextual Alternates can do this. See "Introducing variety" on this page: https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-co...
Comment linking /news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates
on “Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting”Submitted The End of Type 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is a term for that "variable font". One type face come to mind, currently being developed, which should come out in september by famous Font Bureau. [1] [1]: https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-variable-fonts...
Comment linking /brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along/
on “CSS Sans – A font created in CSS”Submitted The End of Type 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> but readability must come first. Not so. Typefaces are (as with most two dimensional design) about communication . Legibility is merely the most straightforward means by which a typeface enables communication (of the text), but there are many other things that can be communicated (emotions, age, time, place, personality, intellect, attitude, sanity, ideology, and on and on). Sure this typeface has some pretty extr…
Comment linking /brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along/
on “Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font”Submitted Amstelvar – New sophisticated serif variable font (typenetwork.com) as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondberlow, I am finding this really interesting (as well as your essay[0] on the work-in-progress that is Amstelvar[1]). What tools are you using for the design process? Anything like Metapolator[2]? Personally, I feel that the critiques here concerning "ugliness" are overblown, as will most who recall the work of designers such as David Carson[3] and publications like Emigre[4]. It actually isn't that hard to find co…
Comment linking /brochure/opentype-variable-fonts-moving-right-along/
on “Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font”Submitted Decovar, a new “variable” font that shows off the latest OpenType font format as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility. edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail. [1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual... [2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
Comment linking /articles/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates
on “A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting”Submitted Introducing Type Network: type for designers as a story · 1 points
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