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• chokolad
  Somewhere in the middle of the article, I stumbled upon a multilanguage sample and noticed that this font has wonderful Cyrillic glyphs. In my previous experience with new fonts Cyrillic usually is not as great as the latin part of the font. The exception being fonts done by foundries based in cyrillic speaking countries, like ParaType fonts [1]. Well, the last third of the article goes into the details on how they achieved it.[1] https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery
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  0x69420
  the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont.[0] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans
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  mercacona
  The font is great. What I miss is a step forward in technology: variable glyphs. The feeling of reading a handwritten text is lost when the letters have always the same shape. If it were possible to add 5-6 little variations for each letter and alternate them randomly, it would be awesome.
• xyzzy_plugh
  Wow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts.This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
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  watchful_moose
  The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
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  jhack
  Is it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.
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  largbae
  Dyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.
• aboardRat4
  Wow, this is so ugly that it's hard to even describe how ugly it is.
• jamwise
  First time seeing it and this is already my favourite hand-written font. Great work!
• jgord
  gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art.superb.totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
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  aetherspawn
  Do you think a corporate brand would get away with using this font site-wide?In an increasingly sterile and AI world, is a human centric approach a good thing albeit possibly unprofessional by current standards?
• glerk
  I like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.
• replwoacause
  A beautiful font, and a beautiful gift from the creators. Very nice!
• swordlucky666
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• mbostock
  tldraw uses this font. It’s a great fit for emulating hand-written notes on a whiteboard; feels human.
• anon
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