{"slug": "font-plague-hits-us-start-ups", "title": "Font plague hits US start ups", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nALERT: 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/ | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/font-plague-hits-us-start-ups", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506972", "published_at": "2026-06-12 17:30:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 17:51:09.898562+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups"], "entities": ["Articul8", "Actio", "Gauntlet", "Nomadic", "Shield AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/font-plague-hits-us-start-ups", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/font-plague-hits-us-start-ups.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/font-plague-hits-us-start-ups.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/font-plague-hits-us-start-ups.jsonld"}}