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Font plague hits US start ups

Toxic fonts have infected landing pages across multiple US startups, prompting a community alert to prevent further outbreaks. Companies including Articul8, Actio, Gauntlet, Nomadic, and Shield AI have been quarantined for using a retina-slashing-square-descender variant font plague.

read1 min publishedJun 12, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | ALERT: Toxic fonts have become endemic in the Western USA, enshittifying the landing pages of many early-stage enterprises. HN calls on the community to be watchful to prevent further outbreaks. The following have been quarantined for retina-slashing-square-descender variant font plague: Articul8 https://www.articul8.ai/ Actio https://actiobiosciences.com/ Gauntlet https://www.gauntletai.com/ Nomadic https://www.nomadicai.com/ Shield AI https://shield.ai/ | ||||||||||| |

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