[tobr]

All true, except it’s not really a Whitney clone. It’s Source Sans very lightly adjusted to match Whitney’s metrics. It looks and feels exactly like Source Sans to me. It’s a little strange to present it as a prestigious project with a minisite like this.

Source Sans is nice and easy to read, but so overused it’s rarely a good starting point for a visual identity.

[huhtenberg]

https://nebulasans.com/img/handgloves.png

[tobr]

I saw that. Here's a quick similar comparison between Nebula Sans and Source Sans I just whipped up: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj

[huhtenberg]

It's more about overall look and feel, which in large part comes from the glyph proportions (the x-height), spacing and weights - https://i.imgur.com/mygqn3H.png

Glyph proportions between Whitney and Nebula are almost identical. As are their weights. Source Sans is substantially heavier and more dense looking.

While individual glyphs may be closer between Nebula and Source Sans, but the overall feel of Nebula is that of Whitney.

[jibal]

Failed rebuttal of tobr's clearly true statement. Your own png refutes your position.

[concerndc1tizen]

So, it's worse than Source Sans because it removed the differentiation between a lowercase L and an uppercase i.

I'd rather use Source Sans then.

[creata]

Tangentially, there are two versions of Source Sans worth considering afaik:

* the latest OTF

* the Source Sans 2.020 TTF, which is the last version (at least, the last version released in the GitHub repository[0]) that has manual hinting

[0]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/releases

[delta_p_delta_x]

The two typefaces couldn't look more different. Look at the stroke cuts on the ascenders of the 'd', 'l', the stroke cuts on the 'a', 'e', and 's'.

[stared]

Is there some online tool for comparing fonts that way?

[notpushkin]

I’m wondering why they’ve added the slanted top on ‘t’, but not the other letters: https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans?t=363

[creata]

They're very upfront about it on the page:

> The majority of the adjustments we made were to adapt the metrics of Source Sans to better match those of Whitney SSm