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Comment by fredleblanc | Hacker News Reader

Not to be "that guy," but the font you're using everywhere for your headers (which is called "Gothic" in the CSS) appears to be "Knockout" from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. The license for that font — as well as all of their fonts for that matter — isn't currently web-embeddable[1]. So either I'm wrong and you've got an extremely good replica font (maybe a little too good), or you're using a font against its license.

[1] http://www.typography.com/ask/faq.php#Ft_10 - choose #20

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It's Knockout:

  HTF Knockout (c) 1994-7 The Hoefler Type Foundry, Inc. http://www.typography.com

This is an easy mistake to make (you buy the font, you figure, "why not just stick it in the CSS; after all, if I could just make a PNG in Photoshop for each header, isn't this just a cleaner way to do it?"

It's also a terrible, terrible mistake, because you're not just abusing the license, you're also publishing HF+J's font.

They should fix this now. Just kill the font declarations.

This is super important. Use Typekit, or another font that allows embedding (Lost Type Co-Op is great http://losttype.com/browse).

If it's not "Knockout", I'd love to know what it actually is. Always need more good fonts.

It is Knockout, the meta data in the font files say so.

Thank you so much for bring this to my attention. I have now changed it to LeagueGothicRegular.

I apologize for any harm I may have caused with the previous font. Please let me know if you are having trouble viewing the font.

We don't care of that, get out :)

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