Reddit Sans

What an interesting thread to read. &quot;Typography aficionados&quot; are one of the most ardent and vocal subcultures within the Hacker News community. Any given post may be hijacked at any time, for a meta-discussion about the font choices on that post&#x27;s linked web page.<p>When a post actually IS about a new font, people dissect that latest microscopic riff on Helvetica like whiskey snobs describing a spirit&#x27;s nose and mouthfeel.<p>However, a strong cross-cutting theme on HN is &quot;hating Reddit even though you obviously spend a lot of time there&quot;. It&#x27;s a clash of the titans, and a real role-reversal... this may be the first time I&#x27;ve ever seen a post <i>about</i> fonts mostly hijacked by something else instead.

First of all, this is a surprisingly nice font. Modern, clean, it has personality but it&#x27;s legibile. Well done!<p>It has some similarities to Product Sans that Google has been rolling out in its interfaces [1] -- suggesting Futura [2], but Google&#x27;s version is clunky and backwards-looking, while Reddit Sans is far more elegant and up-to-date.<p>I do wonder if they&#x27;re going to use it for the body text of conversation threads though? Because it still feels more like a display typeface than body text, with its highly geometric styling. It looks great in the tag bubbles they show, and it&#x27;ll be superb for headlines and things, but I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d want to read comments in it -- but their blog post suggests that&#x27;s what it&#x27;s for.<p>Using this geometric styling is what Google&#x27;s done with all of its Workspace interface now (Gmail, Docs, etc.) and I think it&#x27;s been a big mistake. Futura has always been best as a display font, not for body text, and I don&#x27;t understand why Google has moved from Roboto to Product Sans for things like menus or e-mail subject lines.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Product_Sans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Product_Sans</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Futura_(typeface)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Futura_(typeface)</a>

I guess with less users and moderators they have more time to explore their hobbies over at reddit now.

Blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38465233">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38465233</a><p>Specimen site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redditsans.s-ings.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redditsans.s-ings.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m surprised to see a new brand font in nearly-2024 that doesn&#x27;t have variable axes.*<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fonts.google.com&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;introducing_type&#x2F;introducing_variable_fonts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fonts.google.com&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;introducing_type&#x2F;introduc...</a>

I don&#x27;t really understand why every brand nowadays wants to have a custom font

More like <i>Sans Reddit</i>, har har am I right?<p>Discompliments to &#x2F;u&#x2F;spez.

This is a really clean font. Nice work!

any explanation of why they embarked on a custom font? it&#x27;s not such a simple task and most people wouldn&#x27;t really appreciate the difference if they used arial for everything

In my lay opinion, this font needs a 500 Medium weight.<p>Also needs more spacing between the glyphs as the weight increases.

.woff2 file sizes of &gt;50kb each doesn&#x27;t rock me off my chair though.

What font filetype should I be using on Windows? TTF? WOFF? WOFF2? OTF?

Those are such beautiful glyphs.

I&#x27;ve been sans Reddit for a couple of years now and it&#x27;s been very low stress.

I see Reddit has entered its “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” phase.