Arun

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Great article arguing why many large companies do this - https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

> I already knew about the whole “mathematically perfect corners” thing Apple does This https://arun.is/blog/apple-rounded-corners ?

A couple of reviews: - https://om.co/2024/05/18/daylight-tablet/ - https://arun.is/blog/daylight-tablet/

Despite the common confusion, it's not e-ink but rather a reflective LCD (rLCD) screen. It's the same principle as the original Game Boy where instead of using a backlight, the LCD reflects light instead. There's an early review available here for anyone interested: https://arun.is/blog/daylight-tablet/

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It's the cost. Licensing of fonts can be quite expensive. For example, if you are a big multinational and you get a site license for a font for marketing, you're looking at a couple million a year minimum. On the other side, if you hire a firm to design a font, it's a one time payment of a couple hundred thousand, plus you own the rights in perpetuity. It makes a lot of sense to just take the time and make a font that works for you and to which you own the rights when you look at the economics. [https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/#why-go-custom]

> The problem is licensing... It's led to larger tech companies rolling their own, which often means just taking something already out there and changing a few corners slightly and calling it a new work. https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

The article contains an image [1] showing several tech-company-funded fonts side-by-side. The fonts have some differences, but I'd have to agree with you the changes are so subtle it's hard to believe they resulted from an attempt to make a _radically_ new typeface. [1] https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/unique_typefaces_mobile.jpg

I'm probably echoing a lot of people here but: - Dan Luu [1] and for design and insights in that discipline: - Arun Venkatesan [2] I first saw Dan Luu's list of programming books (https://danluu.com/programming-books/) when researching CLRS during my sophomore year of high school. This list and his insights on pure CS are really enjoyable to read and pique my interest. Also, his post on latency [4] secured the idea that minuscule UX improvements is as important as UI and that we should optimize for both. jvns introduced me to the Recurse Center and dluu confirmed that I could, in fact, participate and do something cool. (I also took his Hugo template for my own blog which has served me well though this week I'll be designing my own with cues from the latter.) Arun is a physical/digital design nerd and someone I read religiously. From photography to the design minutiae of the Apple Card [5] /Mac Pro [6] /iPod HiFi [7] his in-depth posts really allowed me to appreciate even the smallest of design choices and how they play into the larger, big picture, design system as a whole. [1] https://danluu.com/ [2] https://www.arun.is/ [3] https://danluu.com/programming-books/ [4] https://danluu.com/input-lag/ [5] https://www.arun.is/blog/apple-card/ [6] https://www.arun.is/blog/mac-pro/ [7] https://www.arun.is/blog/smart-speaker/

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