So its also monospace?

Huh, so I'm only just learning that the Snellen chart isn't the common one! I wouldn't have known the name of it, but if someone asked me to doodle an eye chart from memory, I would've drawn that blocky E with the serifs! I've most likely been tested with the sans-serif Sloan chart I assume, but the letter forms just aren't distinct enough to stick in my brain I guess. A bit of a shame this font doesn't have a "Optician Serif" variant to look like the Snellen letters.

That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy.

https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....

Nice font. Could have done without the dude's tinder profile pic though.

upon entering, it reminds me to go to the Optometrist

The round G strongly resembles the Google logo.

that C is annoyingly O-ish, and the blurring... feels almost like its made by an anti-optician

Always amusing to see spelling errors on painstakingly put together design websites. Unless NRK did indeed mean 'Let us all behave like opticians!'

My default blank document Font settings in MSWord is Liberation Sans, Bold, 14 px.

But my cataract problem is getting worse, and I may have to bump the size up yet again. I have yet to find another font I like as well.

I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page.

"OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy

“A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe

Is it just me or does it look eerily similar to the font Anthropic uses?

For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)

1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/

This reminds me of the eye chart used in some countries, because it isn't based on reading letters, but on a direction.

For example [0], you should indicate the direction where the E points to.

[0]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MRfRwHwWL._SL1235_.jpg

Fake testimonials.

I am looking for a very readable font and I like it. I am not in anyway qualified to compare it to Source Sans Pro or Opensans which I believe are considered very read friendly.

Previously seen on HN in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18665595

They made a Medium post as well: https://medium.com/anewtypeofinterference/completing-a-typef...

Really like this typeface. It hits that rare sweet spot between experimental and functional. Big thanks to the ANTI Hamar team.

The loading animation made me feel in need of a visit to my optician

Nice font, I wish it had lower case letters as well. It looks like it could be a great fixed width font for coding.

I love this so much! I sent it to my Dad, who's an ophthalmologist. Hopefully he gets a kick out of it.

Nah

Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille institute is the way if we're going for fonts from vision experts

From the designer's website (https://anti.as/optiker-k) it seems that this was commissioned by ANTI Hamar for the rebranding project for Optiker-K, a Norwegian optician and optometrists store.

This is fantastic! More custom fonts like this should be open sourced.

To me the font looks pretty legible. Worth noting that the font is from 2018, so it's not really a new font, but it is still one of my favorites.

The Dropbox link in the footer is dead:

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I didn't notice until my last visit but they also make eye charts for kids who don't know letters yet.