Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

Re:Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface ... by fuzz_junket on Monday May 25, 2015 @01:19PM (#9600850)

It's probably a personal aesthetic, but the variable stroke widths make it look cartoony. It's also got a tendency to big loops — the a, p, h, and g in the sample all have very large, arched, oval shapes (this is probably what they're referring to as the large x-height). That makes it look exaggerated to my eye, and doesn't help the cartoony appearance either.

But if it is a personal dislike and other people are fans, I can't object. It wouldn't be the first time I disliked an Apple initiative that turned out to be very successful.

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Re:Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface ... by derefr on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:33PM (#9601358)

The big loops seem necessary to me, at least when staring at the 8pt size on my retina screen. It's the same sort of contortions you go through to make a "pixel" font look good at 8x8 or 5x5, or an icon look good at 16x16—abstract overemphasis to survive reduction.

I think, if the font didn't literally have to be continuously zoomed in a lot of places, they would just lose the overemphasis at larger sizes.

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