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Font creation, glyphs, icon fonts, type selection, proofing, and typography tools.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026712 stories
Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard↗ bastardica.mitpit.com · HN · 123 comments · 859 points · Sep 23, 2026
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots↗ timmarinin.net · HN · 439 comments · 715 points · Aug 17, 2026
Decoy Font↗ mixfont.com · HN · 158 comments · 725 points · Jul 16, 2026
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens↗ maurycyz.com · HN · 162 comments · 822 points · Apr 19, 2026
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering↗ alexharri.com · HN · 149 comments · 1353 points · Jan 17, 2026
2025919 stories
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma↗ github.com · HN · 207 comments · 775 points · Nov 27, 2025
Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays↗ emilysneddon.com · HN · 140 comments · 1170 points · Nov 23, 2025
Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor↗ brutalita.com · HN · 80 comments · 601 points · Sep 23, 2025
You wouldn't steal a font↗ fedi.rib.gay · HN · 394 comments · 1401 points · Apr 23, 2025
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation↗ sagipolaczek.github.io · HN · 72 comments · 782 points · Jan 08, 2025
2024778 stories
Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator↗ emoji.build · HN · 148 comments · 832 points · Oct 15, 2024
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font↗ brailleinstitute.org · HN · 214 comments · 786 points · Sep 15, 2024
The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)↗ typesetinthefuture.com · HN · 87 comments · 712 points · Jul 11, 2024
UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look↗ wiredjs.com · HN · 116 comments · 766 points · May 31, 2024
Coding My Handwriting↗ amygoodchild.com · HN · 72 comments · 833 points · May 19, 2024
2023818 stories
Smallest Typeface↗ luc.devroye.org · HN · 110 comments · 170 points · Dec 28, 2023
I had no idea that one company basically owns every font↗ thehustle.co · HN · 15 comments · 60 points · Aug 27, 2023
Don't Fire Your Illustrator↗ sambleckley.com · HN · 26 comments · 66 points · Aug 21, 2023
Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing work efficiently↗ inkscape.org · HN · 4 comments · 59 points · Jul 24, 2023
Comic Mono↗ dtinth.github.io · HN · 30 comments · 101 points · Jun 13, 2023
2022763 stories
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font↗ blog.pkh.me · HN · 166 comments · 790 points · Nov 19, 2022
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B↗ bloomberg.com · HN · 1247 comments · 2348 points · Sep 15, 2022
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font↗ brailleinstitute.org · HN · 235 comments · 799 points · Sep 11, 2022
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo↗ jacobmartins.com · HN · 378 comments · 1045 points · Aug 02, 2022
Emoji Kitchen↗ emoji.supply · HN · 190 comments · 850 points · Jul 25, 2022
2021788 stories
TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics↗ zig.news · HN · 187 comments · 551 points · Dec 20, 2021
Show HN: Emoji to Scale↗ javier.xyz · HN · 124 comments · 713 points · Dec 03, 2021
We analyzed 425k favicons↗ iconmap.io · HN · 128 comments · 550 points · Oct 20, 2021
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font↗ github.com · HN · 106 comments · 529 points · Jul 09, 2021
Let’s fix font size↗ tonsky.me · HN · 347 comments · 918 points · Mar 30, 2021
2020864 stories
Comic Mono↗ dtinth.github.io · HN · 216 comments · 643 points · Dec 23, 2020
Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page↗ roughnotation.com · HN · 74 comments · 696 points · May 28, 2020
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font↗ vole.wtf · HN · 284 comments · 673 points · May 10, 2020
Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers↗ vistaserv.net · HN · 172 comments · 774 points · May 10, 2020
Which Emoji Scissors Close?↗ wh0.github.io · HN · 126 comments · 1545 points · Jan 03, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard↗ bastardica.mitpit.com · HN · 123 comments · 859 points · Sep 23, 2026
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width↗ ampdot.mesh.host · HN · 23 comments · 93 points · Sep 26, 2026
A font that reads what you wrote↗ rohanadwankar.github.io · HN · 44 comments · 97 points · Sep 20, 2026
Nebula Sans↗ nebulasans.com · HN · 196 comments · 473 points · Aug 26, 2026
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots↗ timmarinin.net · HN · 439 comments · 715 points · Aug 17, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard↗ bastardica.mitpit.com · HN · 123 comments · 859 points · Sep 23, 2026
A font that reads what you wrote↗ rohanadwankar.github.io · HN · 44 comments · 97 points · Sep 20, 2026
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width↗ ampdot.mesh.host · HN · 23 comments · 93 points · Sep 26, 2026
Better Icon and Label Alignment↗ ishadeed.com · HN · 8 comments · 43 points · Sep 16, 2026
Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack↗ leadedsolder.com · HN · 3 comments · 30 points · Sep 08, 2026
Font where each token is equal-width↗ twitter.com · HN · 14 comments · 26 points · Sep 26, 2026
Show HN: What If Donut.c but with Any ASCII Art↗ asdesai.com · HN · 3 comments · 17 points · Sep 12, 2026
BeOS-R5-Icons↗ github.com · HN · 1 comments · 15 points · Sep 20, 2026
Show HN: Frost – frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are↗ github.com · HN · 1 comments · 15 points · Sep 19, 2026
Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font↗ github.com · HN · 4 comments · 15 points · Sep 13, 2026

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