Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font

I wouldn't know, because your screenshots are smaller than a postage stamp on mobile and your website prevents zooming in.

This

Direct link to the full screenshot. 1.8MB, 2624x1080 https://www.osnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot...

Not defending the site, but you can press and hold on the image, and open in a new tab. At least you can see full size and zoom in.

Reminds me a little bit of Solaris for some reason

Does anyone know what's the rationale for doing this? It's annoying and defeats the very purpose of viewing an image or page. I consider it an anti-pattern.

"looks good on my machine"

Doesn’t work for me on iOS Safari.

You can also just click the thumbnails and it shows the full sized image in a modal. I assume everyone here blocks javascript by default and would never know that.

And now the thread will be entirely dominated by pedantic complaints about the site's implementation, per HN tradition.

If I do that on the first screenshot it shows up even tinier than it was before for some reason

It didn't for me, idk what your problem is.

I've made sure to configure the browser to allow zooming on any website. Don't understand why websites try to block this.

It's not doing that for me on mobile, either, both Firefox and Chrome are giving me miniscule images when I tap on them. Switching to landscape didn't help either, where is usually might.

Same for me, Firefox/Android.

ricing

Pack it up, guys. It work on this guys machine…

That does not really help, as demonstrated: https://ctrlv.link/x9Ov

Sites just shouldn't disable zooming, it's one meta tag. The browsers shouldn't offer this option at all. There are no legitimate reasons to disable zooming.

It looks a lot like gnome 2. That was the last version informed by human factors research and user studies. Sun performed the research.

It’s not a coincidence that things like mint and cinnamon are still being maintained.

Things like this and sites wanting microfonts make me glad that reader mode exists that can strip all the styling. Reader mode exposes the image as an inline element you can easily tap to expand, then pinch to zoom.

On mobile, zoom can be annoying in certain webapps. It's easy to accidentally zoom in while playing a game, for example.

Is web the wrong platform for these types of experiences? Perhaps, but it's also the only way to avoid the walled garden.

OpenSolaris looked great, IMO. OpenIndiana looks the same (no surprise here).

I am sure there are legitimate reasons to disable zooming. I do not like it either, of course, but off the top of my head:

- Websites relying on pixel-perfect layouts that do not gracefully adapt when zoomed

- Input Errors on touch devices

- Branding and aesthetics

- Embedded devices where a site is running in a controlled environment where zooming serves no practical purposes and disabling zooming prevents tampering, misuse, accidental UI scaling that disrupts normal operations

- Fixed-scale graphics or games where zooming distorts aspect ratios, crop controls, or even break gameplay mechanics

Because they want their website to look and feel exactly like an app. Because users expect apps, presumably. Because modern life is rubbish.

Maybe it's your browser/phone restricting that?

Zoom works find on default samsung browser

https://imgur.com/a/brZ3FXP

Ironically it's the latest version of Plasma KDE using Qt 6, took a lot of time to port it from 5

I clicked and the image opened to me

I can see what you are getting at. Reminds me a bit of their GTK theme Nimbus for the Gnome based Java Desktop System but also Bluecurve of Gnome 2 with Bitstream Vera. Perhaps it just looks dated?

Yea maybe I asked AI and it said the reason why is both Sun’s design and the Nokia design are both “a neutral neo-grotesque foundation, refined contrast, and consistent spacing”