FontFeed
fontfeed.com · Group blog · on HN since 2009
FontFeed is a typography blog covering typefaces, numerals, font licensing, web fonts and type in movie posters.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for typography details like numeral styles and iPad typography, and its posts on Google Fonts privacy and a pirated font in a French anti-piracy logo.
15HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Typography on the iPad3 people · 118 points · first shared 2010 · 38 comments on HN
- 2Google Webfonts, the Spy Inside?3 people · 76 points · first shared 2014 · 77 comments on HN
- 3French anti-piracy organisation uses pirated font in own logo2 people · 27 points · first shared 2010 · 3 comments on HN
- 4Figuring Out Numerals - typefaces and fonts for numbers2 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 5FontBook, Now An iPad App1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6FontShop Joins Monotype1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7The Logos of Web 2.0 (Fonts)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 8ScreenFonts, a monthly column about movie poster typography1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Nyu researchers discover defining factor for legibility1 people · first shared 2015
What HN people wrote when they linked it
michaelpinto · 2015-10-07
How much you kern may be subjective, but kerning itself (and other aspects of typography) are very related to legibility which is less subjective. Of course on a one word logo that really won't make a measurable difference.
Related reading:
http://fontfeed.com/archives/nyu-researchers-discover-defining-factor-…
Kafoury · 2015-02-22
Perhaps the site's creators will be kind enough to consider the privacy issues regarding Google Fonts: http://fontfeed.com/archives/google-webfonts-the-spy-inside/
rjvin · 2014-08-13
A lot of fonts these days come with 4 different styles of numerals/figures (http://fontfeed.com/archives/figuring-out-numerals/). Typographically each has its different uses: inline with lowercase letters you usually use proportional oldstlye figures, while tabular ones are reserved for numerical data like dollar amounts and things. If you dislike the default figure style of a typeface you should see if they have different ones available via OpenType features.
Silhouette · 2011-12-15
Don't forget their copyright enforcement agency, HADOPI, whose own logo ripped off a commercial font: http://fontfeed.com/archives/french-anti-piracy-organisation-uses-pira…
elblanco · 2010-04-08