Geist Serif(vercel.com)
38 pointsby Zm442 hours ago13 comments
  • dcss_gardeneran hour ago
    I like it. I'm not generally that enthusiastic about these corporate fonts (though I know why they do it) but it's good to see some strong opinions in the serifs. It's so much better than the exaggerated anachronistic ink traps that has become such a visual cliche of the 2020s internet.
  • apetrescan hour ago
    I'm into typography and I like trying out new fonts, but what's with the sudden flood of everyone making their own lately? I remember how novel and interesting it was a few years ago when, like, JetBrains Mono came out. Now it's like every code-adjacent company has their own. Is AI particularly good at font design or something?
    • dcss_gardeneran hour ago
      A good part of it is simply license costs and obligations makes it attractive for certain kinds and sizes of businesses. But there are plenty good open source fonts now that could be used as a basis so that's not all of it.

      The other is that people with an eye for design like fonts the way mushrooms like decaying wood. If you leave a designer unattended for too long fonts appear as if from nowhere.

    • blazarquasaran hour ago
      Im not personally a fan of Geist, but its been around for years and it has been the default for create-next-app for a few years…
    • threetonesun35 minutes ago
      Previously it was every company that made a device, before that any company with a text-heavy app like a Word Processor. I think if you stare at fonts long enough and have a design team you eventually make your own.
  • nerdo38 minutes ago
    Outside-the-box big brain idea for font webpages with walls of gibberish: Make the font for the gibberish the font.
  • schainks21 minutes ago
    Okay, the special dot choices are pretty pretttttty nify!

    This font renders like trash on my 9 year old widescreen, but I am sure it will look gorgeous on a MBP display. Guess I found my excuse to upgrade!

  • droidjjan hour ago
    Sad that “crafted by hand” immediately makes me think Claude made it.
    • christophilus18 minutes ago
      > Four variants, one axis

      Dunno about the font, but the copy on this page is 100% Claude.

    • twodavean hour ago
      It obviously wrote the article so why not.
  • hit8run5 minutes ago
    Very hard to read in small sizes. It mushes together to a big mud ball for my eyes. Large is nice.
  • phenomen2 hours ago
    I use Geist Sans and Mono for almost all of my projects. I'm looking forward to Fontsource/Google Fonts adding Serif to the repository.
  • aabhayan hour ago
    Feels very Halloween-y especially with that vampire N and the sharp serifs. Not a candidate for my rotation.
    • throwaway219450an hour ago
      I hoped it was too, with the sort of glitchy portfolio image and the words being “midnight, raven, etc”

      > and it was drawn to communicate messages powerfully both in the physical world and

      .. in the ethereal?

  • raframan hour ago
    Sans-serif for body, serif for headlines? Unconventional choice.
  • poly2it28 minutes ago
    The letterforms look good, but why is the kerning so off? It looks omitted in the graphics.
  • esafakan hour ago
    Pretty stylish. Thumbs up.
  • 2 hours ago
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  • xg15an hour ago
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