[fermienrico]

Type design is a subtle thing is such a wrong statement. Type design is everything - big and small things. This is why it takes a long time to design a timeless font because the search domain is insanely massive.

Let's be honest here, Netflix Sans and Airbnb Cereal are pretty much identical except for the grotesk details.

[lioeters]

I was curious if you used the word "grotesk" as a technical term in type design, like how "gothic" (apparently) has typographic meaning. I looked it up, and learned that "grotesque" is a class/category of sans-serif fonts.

Re-reading your last sentence, you probably meant in a general way, as in "grotesque: characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion; outlandish or bizarre".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#Classification

Edit: Oh, here's a great comment from someone who worked on the font, with a mention of "Grotesque" san-serif.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075836#17080855

[fermienrico]

I meant it in a typographical sense.