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The day I discovered type design (https://www.marksimonson.com)

91 points by ingve 1 day ago | 8 comments | View on ycombinator

furyofantares 1 day ago |

> Lettering design I did for my high school yearbook in 1974.

Anyone else get an optical illusion effect from this? Looks like it's continually zooming out to me.

mosessupposed 1 day ago |

Ah, that's the guy who designed my favorite typeface. I once ran a weekly newspaper that was about 70% Etna. It's a fabulous family, lots of character (and characters - heh) while still crazy versatile.

sebastianmestre 1 day ago |

TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed