Font Playground
Creative
font design tool
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Sliders and variable font demos make the concept tangible
From 2 comments
This one finally made some things about how fonts play in the web more tangible to me. the bounding box and three choices of rescaling/sizing made this much more clear to me,…
ggm on HNI love how "Cheee" has the descriptive dimensions of puffy "Yeast" and droopy "Gravity"! The last one in the list, "ZinZin", has "Swash" that makes discrete changes to different…
DonHopkins on HN
Interesting x-height axis and parameter examples
From 2 comments
I love the idea of an x-height axis as demonstrated in Dunbar. Different x-heights can be used for really interesting effects in different design contexts.
kenbellows on HNI love how "Cheee" has the descriptive dimensions of puffy "Yeast" and droopy "Gravity"! The last one in the list, "ZinZin", has "Swash" that makes discrete changes to different…
DonHopkins on HN
Objections
Sliders are cut off on smaller screens due to panel overflow
From 1 comment
The .panel on the right doesn’t do overflow, so on not-enormous screens, some of the sliders are hidden from view. Decovar with fifteen sliders is the easiest to see this on—if…
chrismorgan on HN
Does not work on Firefox or mobile Safari
From 2 comments
Does not seem to work for me on Firefox/Linux
pepijndevos on HNDoesn’t seem to do much on mobile Safari
tobyhinloopen on HN
Rendering artifacts such as white horizontal lines
From 1 comment
I'm getting some rendering artifacts, i.e. white horizontal lines.
amelius on HN
Requests
Support for adding custom fonts to the font menu
From 2 comments
This one finally made some things about how fonts play in the web more tangible to me. the bounding box and three choices of rescaling/sizing made this much more clear to me,…
ggm on HNI will support adding your own fonts to font menu soon! Stay tuned and thanks for the suggestion!
wentin on HN
Background info on the font catalog and how to add fonts
From 1 comment
This one finally made some things about how fonts play in the web more tangible to me. the bounding box and three choices of rescaling/sizing made this much more clear to me,…
ggm on HN
Questions
Why slant axis appears on only some fonts
From 2 comments
Thanks! That worked for me. This is such a great feature. Once standard, it would reduce the need for have multiple variants of the same font-family. I noticed only a few fonts…
chime on HNThe axes are defined by the font. Slant implemented that way usually leads to an oblique font, while many fonts (even sans-serif ones) have distinctly-designed italic variants.…
ygra on HN
Alternatives named
Fonty playground by dizoo
From 1 comment
Cool, this one is also great: https://fonty.dizoo.bg/
dziungles on HN
Merit Badge font preview
From 1 comment
The Merit Badge sidebar preview gets extremely colourful with subpixel rendering: https://temp.chrismorgan.info/merit-badge-subpixel-rendering.png. It looks quite fascinating!
chrismorgan on HN