Inspired by Jonathan Hoefler's essay that illustrated the problems with pangrams as typeface proofs, I wanted to build a simple site that lets you proof any font from Google Fonts with his proof texts. Almost all(~95%) of the site was built with Gemini CLI
PaulHoule•19h ago
Doesn't work for me: I switch between Arial and Helvetica but the font doesn't change.
_venkatasg•19h ago
The differences are very subtle in lowercase, check uppercase? But maybe your system doesn't have Helvetica/Arial installed? I assumed its available on every OS, but that might not be the case.
PaulHoule•19h ago
I'm running a pretty standard Win 11. I looked at the page you made about the differences and looked for those and don't see them.
Pro tip: take a look at the home page vs /new -- people are pretty frustrated with all the "I vibe coded something that almost worked" posts and not voting them up.
_venkatasg•18h ago
Weird. I see the differences on mine across browsers and on my phone and desktop.
And yeah I get it, I don’t claim this to be something amazing that should shoot up in ranking, just that it was my first experience vibe coding. But it certainly works on my end! What about if you search for a google web font?
PaulHoule•18h ago
That seems to work -- I can say though that off the top of my head I don't know the name of any of those fonts, though typing in "Tre" turned up a whole lot of them. Helvetica vs Arial is about as good as Batman vs Superman (though a New Yorker thought that my use of Arial to simulate signs from the New York Subway was an outrage) but you should have some example that just works for everyone.
_venkatasg•18h ago
SHould have double checked Windows default fonts — Windows doesn't have Helvetica ugh.
_venkatasg•19h ago
PaulHoule•19h ago
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PaulHoule•19h ago
Pro tip: take a look at the home page vs /new -- people are pretty frustrated with all the "I vibe coded something that almost worked" posts and not voting them up.
_venkatasg•18h ago
PaulHoule•18h ago
_venkatasg•18h ago