Shantell Sans (2023)

the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont.

[0] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans

	▲	dostick 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That’s the coolest thing!And “bounce” slider. What a time to be alive… I wonder if there are more fonts like that with special adjustments. Still waiting for technology to allow handwritten font with true randomness.

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xyzzy_plugh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts.

This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.

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watchful_moose 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.

The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!

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replwoacause 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A beautiful font, and a beautiful gift from the creators. Very nice!

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aetherspawn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you think a corporate brand would get away with using this font site-wide?

In an increasingly sterile and AI world, is a human centric approach a good thing albeit possibly unprofessional by current standards?

	▲	Fnoord an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A website could offer accessibility features, such as dark mode or dyslexia font. These could be subtle, or very obvious, depending on your target group. Large amounts of texts (e.g. a testimonial) could be a valid example. If you go for site-wide, you got consistency. If you'd apply it on h1-3 you'd put emphasis on the titles. It'd be great if say Mozilla Firefox included this font natively (for the app itself). Then again, the default is currently Times New Roman...

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largbae 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.

	▲	mplanchard 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am not dyslexic, but the roboto example also highlighted a very stark difference in readability for me! Especially after having gotten used to shantell sans reading up to that point, the roboto felt nigh-unreadable.

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jamwise 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First time seeing it and this is already my favourite hand-written font. Great work!

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jgord 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art.

superb.

totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.

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jhack 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.

	▲	replwoacause 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use and love this. Not quite the same, and not free, but I think it's beautifully made. https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia
	▲	mplanchard 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was also really hoping for a mino version. I have used comic-sans-inspired monospaced fonts for some time for coding, because I think they are extremely readable. This font is so beautiful, I’d really love to see it in my terminal

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glerk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.

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mbostock an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

tldraw uses this font. It’s a great fit for emulating hand-written notes on a whiteboard; feels human.