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flexagoon 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

> Slop fonts: Space Grotesk, Instrument Serif, Geist, Syne, Fraunces

Nooo please don't ruin great fonts by associating them with low effort vibecoding

They may be somewhat overused but they are popular for a reason

bstsb 3 months ago [–]

yeah lots of these are used by AI because they're good. i use Space Grotesk for headings on my current project, rotheme, with Instrument Sans in the body, and my link shortener project uses Geist.

maybe i'm an LLM too

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