Nokia's Legendary Font Makes for a Great User Interface Font

Do not have copyright in US. If you are a serious business operating internationally things are more complicated.

What if I write a tool that pulls all the vectors out of a font file, puts them in a new font file with a new font id/name, munges it up so they don't have the same hash?

Shapes aren't software, and whatever fool judicial ruling set that precedent is ripe for some loopholing.

Reminds me a little bit of Solaris for some reason

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.

Doesn’t work for me on iOS Safari.

"looks good on my machine"

ricing

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.

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

I beg to disagree.

The 5210 was the best, it was indestructible, cheap, kept its charge and still was functional even if you rode over it in your bulldozer.

The 8110 was the second imo, but only for the style.

And the 3310-ish were the runners-up. Cheaper than 5k series, and almost as useful.

How big were Nokia's smartphones in the US? The E and N series Symbian 60 phones?

> I really don’t understand what kind of a business decisions it is to own such a legendary brand with such as a rich and successful history and not use it.

I bet $1000 that's mostly due to ridiculous patents, business contracts with term limits, poor managerial decisions, and possibly EU regulations that make it more expensive/harder to innovate.

> They insisted on shipping SIP clients on their phones, so US carriers stopped selling their phones

This is a hot take if I've ever seen one. Completely ignoring the launch of the iphone in 2007 which coincided with their downfall. We could say yeah, maybe they didn't partner with CDMA and all the weird V-cast shit Verizon was doing and that hurt their market share like crazy, but to say SIP was the dealbreaker, just lol.

Also, Android shipped a native SIP client until this decade: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-killing-native-sip...

SIP was useless over a mobile connection those days. 3G's latency was way too high to support a decent voice call. SIP only worked reliably over WiFi.

Why must a UI use the same font on low DPI displays as on high DPI displays?

    16" 2.5K (2560 x 1600) Anti-Glare Non-Touch 300nits WVA/IPS Display with ComfortView Plus

    16.0-inch 16:10 FHD+ (1920x1200) Touch 300nits WVA/IPS Display with ComfortView

> most fonts that get recommended here and it's immediately obvious they weren't tested on low end monitors at all

Most new typefaces aren't, I concede that (especially the ones developed on Macs), but older ones were developed on monitors with lower pixel density (or even CRTs), ergo my point about good hinting.

Lucida Grande is so classy for a sans serif font! I always use it when I don't want to use a serif font.

Yes, I guess I meant Chicago.

Fira is great, but I've switched to JetBrains Mono and it's smoother on the eyes.

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.

I have never encountered a non-HiDPI setup where non-bitmap fonts looked especially different or good, so I don't think my OS[1] is relevant. If you look at screenshots of classic Mac OS it has a beautiful timeless look to the fonts, that I feel I similarly get using Terminus in my terminals. I also wanted to list an old Windows version out of fairness, which would be 3.1, I guess, but when quickly looking up screenshots, it doesn't look quite as good as I want it to. Your first instinct that my setup is wrong when I'm commenting on the state of fonts as a whole tells me you're probably used to the blur. Most people who aren't already a bit weird about their terminal fonts don't seem to understand or at least don't seem to care when I talk about the blurry font problem.

[1] But I'll tell you anyway so I don't seem like an asshole. I'm using Guix System GNU/Linux and the Sway Wayland compositor on my primary PC at the moment.