Submission timeline
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 orderWhat a wonderful adventure! My favorite of all the recent HN posts. This is the true spirit of hacking: > So, this stumped me for a while. I decided I needed to get to know fonts better, so I built a simple web app to view the lines, curves and control points present in the fonts I had. On this basis, I started to consider the ways the features (vertices, curves, stems, serifs etc) might be matched up between fonts…
This is an experiment from 2011 in which the author produced a font by averaging all the fonts on their system. I'm reposting it here because I noticed that this looks a lot like the uncanny valley produced when an image AI tries to make text, which makes perfect sense: it's a statistical average of fonts.
I think we've all seen that the average of many faces creates a beautiful face. http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average This is an interesting experiment, but it makes a pretty ugly font. It's a muddy in-between that doesn't have the benefits of being a serif nor a sans-serif font. I'd like to see the averages of similar fonts.
I wonder what copyright issues this would have?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 764
- Total comments
- 115
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-10-30 | Averia: The creation of an average font | e1ven | 34 | 1 |
| 2012-04-23 | The Average FontFirst breakout · Best thread | daleharvey | 481 | 63 |
| 2019-09-02 | Averia – The Average Font | Pete_D | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-03-17 | Averia: The Average Font | EndXA | 11 | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | Avería – The Average Font (2011) | alwa | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-11-08 | Avería: The Average Font (2011)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | JoshTriplett | 233 | 50 |