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

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317 points rguiscard | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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opan ◴[30 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45077227[source]▶
I can never seem to tell fonts apart or appreciate them unless they're bitmap fonts. I love a sharp, crisp, clean font. I can tell apart Terminus, Tewi, and Lemon. Everything else just falls into a blurry "other" category, it seems, unless it's very highly stylized. I had high expectations opening this article and then was kinda like "Where's the font? Is he using it in those screenshots? Looks pretty normal".
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anikom15 ◴[30 Aug 25 20:51 UTC] No.45077898[source]▶
Blurry? Sounds like a poor renderer. You may want to turn anti-aliasing off. What OS are you on?
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1. zdimension ◴[30 Aug 25 23:22 UTC] No.45078888[source]▶
I think "blurry" was used here referring to the fact that they don't really pay attention to the differences between fonts, not to an aspect of the rendering.
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2. opan ◴[01 Sep 25 07:36 UTC] No.45090404[source]▶
It was kind of a double-meaning. Non-bitmap fonts really are blurry, comparatively. AFAICT the non-bitmap fonts just hide this thanks to people using HiDPI displays now, which is basically like saying "well, it looks fine from far away".