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System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern operating system

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2023-03-15 · latest 2025-10-03

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  1. …looks like a normal typed font". Thanks for the suggestion to go to the github for the screenshots: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
    comment by craftkiller · 2025-10-03 · in Modern Font Stacks
  2. It's exactly what the manual specifies: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks?tab=readm... Windows 11+ -> Cascadia Code Windows 7+ -> Consolas
    comment by andix · 2025-10-03 · in Modern Font Stacks
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    System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
    story by tosh · 2025-02-03 · 1 comment
  4. …that choice isn't worth it, especially with how it looks on platforms other than mac. [0] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
    comment by actualwitch · 2025-01-28 · in Show HN: Experiment ▴ LLM UI for developers with tool use visualization
  5. …nowadays to put together a pretty decent stack without having to resort to serving web fonts. https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks Even if you are using web fonts, those stacks make for good fallbacks.
    comment by jsheard · 2024-09-10 · in What you can get out of a high-quality font
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    System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
    story by gslin · 2023-03-16 · 0 comments
  7. Doesn't show install base, but the GitHub page shows which OS has which font https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
    comment by kalleboo · 2023-03-16 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  8. …it. If you aren't using system-ui yet take a look here how it looks in various operating systems: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#system-ui
    comment by doodlesdev · 2023-03-16 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  9. A preview is available on the GitHub README [0] [0] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#system-ui
    comment by conaclos · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  10. …This will render SF Mono on macOS and iOS [2]. [1] https://caniuse.com/extended-system-fonts [2] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#monospace...
    comment by danklammer · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  11. …readme[1] says Inter is a "user-installed" font, so I'm not really sure it should count here. 1: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#neo-grote...
    comment by joe5150 · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  12. …right? Here's the bigger problem. No two fonts have the same font metrics. Go to the Github page: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#css-font-... . These fonts are all using the same font size, weight, etc. but they are…
    comment by deckard1 · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  13. Someone filed an issue already https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks/issues/1
    comment by nielsbot · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  14. …page has some notes about this, along with more info about what systems support which typefaces. https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#industria... .
    comment by joe5150 · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  15. …if you look at the screenshots on the GH page[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height [1] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#classical...
    comment by vanderZwan · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  16. …my machine. Could you maybe have an incomplete font with some weird font-substitution quirks? [0] https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#neo-grote...
    comment by vanderZwan · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  17. The repo actually has png/gif comparisons for them. https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#industria... But yeah, I'd love some way to preview a custom piece of text.
    comment by noneeeed · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  18. https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks explains each stack and which fonts are expected to be used where, with screenshots. This information makes it (mildly bizarrely, and quite disappointingly) generally more useful than…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  19. The github page has screen grabs of all the fonts in each stack: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
    comment by pseudonymcoward · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs