oh no, an indie company is having fun instead of increasing the shareholder’s value!

mbo a day ago | parent | next [-]

you should have seen the reaction when Are.na collaborated with Dinamo on a new version of Arial (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012995) - like, are we not allowed to make art for arts' sake?

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pibaker a day ago | parent | next [-]

Hacker News gets mad if you deviate a little from the usual profit maximizing routine to do something a little humanistic. And then they keep upvoting articles on how corpo streamlining sucks all life out and how the modern society lost its humanistic spirit. You can't win. May very well just play you own game and enjoy it.

	▲	urbnspacecowboy 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Hacker News gets mad... And then they... Goomba fallacy strikes again! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

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strenholme 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The key difference is this: Areal is a proprietary typeface. Nebula Sans is an open source (SIL) typeface.

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dumpHero2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or passing the income to it's creators

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RobotToaster 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A generic corporate sans-serif typeface is your idea of fun?