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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderWith a few tweaks (monospaced variant), it could make a great coding font. Coding fonts have essentially the same goal: make similar looking characters different: 1liI|, 0O, etc... Code naturally strains our visual acuity: we want to see as much as possible, it means that we may use a smaller font size than we would find comfortable reading text with. Single letter, punctuation, etc... can be really important, in regular text, you can understand even if you can't read all…
The license is interesting. Namely that it can be embedded in something and sold, but not sold on its own. I believe that makes it incompatible with the OSI definition of open source.
I use Atkynson Mono Nerd Font in my terminal. (Name is different in the forked font, it’s spelled Atkinson Hyperlegible officially)
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1605
- Total comments
- 451
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-30 | Atkinson Hyperlegible – a font by the Braille Institute designed for legibility | ethanpil | 12 | 1 |
| 2021-10-21 | Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | ingve | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-09-11 | Atkinson Hyperlegible FontFirst breakout · Best thread | zdw | 799 | 235 |
| 2024-09-15 | Atkinson Hyperlegible FontLatest 20+ point return | fanf2 | 786 | 214 |
| 2026-03-28 | The Braille Institute's family of hyperlegible fontsHall induction | pmaddams | 5 | 1 |