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Comment by thinbeige | Hacker News Reader

A disproportionate sans serif without any letter spacing. It's free though, so better than nothing.

Edit: Dear downvoters, what I am saying is that you can take any ramdom sans serif, reduce the letter-spacing and you end up with a similar looking font face which might be even more balanced. Despite my criticism, I expressed my high appreciation that the creator offers his work for free. If you disagree let me know why instead of downvoting, maybe I am wrong and missed something.

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Absolutely valid criticism for a font. The page hurt to read.

I wondered if I was the only one to feel dizzy. Maybe it was the colors.

By "disproportionate", do you mean "badly proportioned", or merely "proportional" as opposed to monospace?

By disproportionate I meant that it feels like a slightly condensed font without really being a condensed font. This paired with this too small letter spacing creates this disproportionate look.

Another poster just commented that it looks like Roboto (or is even based on Roboto) and Roboto faces the same issues but not that worse. Roboto itself is a mutated Helvetica Neue which is admittedly a reference sans serif where every other sans looks inferior amd kind of turned out badly in comparison.

I'm looking at the rendered image and the letter spacing seems vastly better than it is when rendered on the page (Freetype, Linux, with a few simple fontconfig improvements).

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

IMO, it's balanced out by the fuller explanation of what they intended to say and the request for clarification of what was wrong. It's not like they just added a "Why am I being downvoted?" without adding any further value.

I'd say people should resist downvoting without commenting, unless the comment is very clearly vulgar or spammy.

What platform/browser are you using? It looks great on iOS, feels similar to San Francisco.

iOS + Safari

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