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Linuxsucks @lemmy.world Never noticed Windows users fawning over fonts

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It's a good job they explained the joke.

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- Wasn't there some theory about comics being improved by removing the final panel?
  
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  Definitely. I was going to post this:
  
  Remove 4th panel.
  
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  you don't need 2 either. 1 is the setup, 3 is the punchline.
  
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  Wasn't there a subreddit about improving comics? Usually just removing the panel that rams the punch line down your throat.
  
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The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.

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- Love the lowercase, hate the uppercase. Look at what they did to my boy B.
  
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  I really love the numbers, though.
  
  I've discovered that it's a horrible screen font, though: far too spindly to be easily readable. I still use it, but I have to make it larger than usual and bold, and it's still a little hard to make out sometimes.
  
  Oh, what we sacrifice for aesthetics.
  
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  You might enjoy Futura, the ITC Avant Garde Gothic family, or Century Gothic...
  
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  What're you looking at?? His gut?? He's working on it!
  
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- I have the urge to drink martini and rewatch The Great Gatsby.
  
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  And Jeeves & Wooster, and Poirot.
  
  Poirot is obviously the inspiration here, in style and name.
  
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- This has an art nouveau feeling.
  
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  I'd say Art Deco, Art Nouveau's successor, but obviously there aren't fine lines between them.
  
  When I think Art Nouveau, I think wavy, curvy script; everything was just a little psychedelic in Art Nouveau.
  
  1920's, in any case.
  
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- Wait, is this Comic Sans? Some just want to see the internet burn
  
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  I feel like the comic sans hate did die down in recent years and justly so. It was overhated IMHO. It's an ok font for certain uses. The problem was mostly people misusing it to serve roles it was never designed for.
  
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  Sure, but we use Papyrus, not Comic Sans.
  
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- I know a person who professionally does something with text. She made it her mission to format every single email in ComicSans, bold, italic, red, centered.
  
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  See that's funny. My boss using comic sans light blue for emails explaining highly technical shit to non-technical users? Funny in theory, absolutely not in action.
  
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Fira Sans ♥️

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- Text looks good, but man the Number hight looks cursed and kinda random.
  
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  they're called lowercase numbers and they're designed to look good in paragraph text. for example if you're reading this comment, mentioning the year 1997 suddenly puts four full height characters as if I typed one word in all caps, while in lowercase numbers it would look more like if I typed the word iggy (1 is x height while 9 and 7 have descenders like g and y).
  
  they're not designed to be used in math or for longer number sequences. for that you have the full height (uppercase) numbers that most typeface should still have.
  
  0123456789 in lowercase have the same heights as oizgjpbyfq - just as random as that word's letter heights are. which is not random at all, you're just not supposed to use it like that.
  
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  Their shape is beautiful (from 3 to 9) but why were they not written on the same line?
  
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  It appears that the middle line crosses the centre of mass.
  
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  FWIW, these are "old style" numerals, and there are also versions of Fira Sans with "tabular" numerals that are all the same height (e.g., in LaTeX, you can pick either one).
  
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If your font type was a person:

GIMME AN A

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- They did, in fact, nail it.
  
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I’m more of a sans serif kinda guy

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- Grotesque.
  
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Atkinson hyperlegibile is hands down the best for reading ebooks. It was designed for visually impaired people, but it's also super easy on the eyes for everyone else. I read so much faster and more comfortably with this that I can't imagine using anything else.

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Baskerville

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Fira Code or Iosevka for me please.

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- I like Ubuntu Mono but I’ll admit it’s a bit flashy for a code font.
  
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This would totally be Brick from The Middle

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Universal Grotesk

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ITC Avant Garde, so beautiful

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- ....Isn't Avant Garde a sans serif?
  
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  I don't know, I just love how it looks
  
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  Yes, it's grotesque.
  
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Verdana is my fucking jam. Good spacing and very legible at different font sizes. My only two gripes: Lower case "l" (L) being a straight line and the number 0 has no cross through it. Not major though, cause they're still pretty distinct from similar characters.

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- Eh, just a cheap Helvetica clone.
  
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- verdana is great for small sizes on screen. it was designed specifically for that purpose so it would look good with pixellation. it's probably the most successfully designed Microsoft font to date. if you want to type anything in like 5-6pt font verdana is a great choice. but that also makes it bulky and inelegant at larger font sizes.
  
  if you want a sans serif default ms font to use in larger sizes the segoe font family is pretty good.
  
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  The biggest factor for me with fonts is readability (I have my notepad++ default to verdana at 16pt font on a 1080p monitor which is my ideal). It's probably worth mentioning that my eyesight isn't great and I think I have some kind of brain related trouble with print.
  
  Segoe is okay, but the font is really thin and the spacing is too narrow for me.
  
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Monaspace Krypton for coding. I'll take no questions.

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- what's a llama?
  
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The subtle kerning of it, the tasteful thickness of it, my god it's even got serifs.

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Came across Junicode 2 recently, and wow, what a typeface!

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- Very nice! What is the difference btw small caps and petite capitals?
  
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- Nice find, thanks!
  
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0xProto nerd font.

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- When you pick topmost font for ricing ur terminal
  
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  It's just that beautiful.
  
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My favorite font foundry is https://indestructibletype.com. Beautiful typefaces, open source, and many different weights. The designer also has some good sex ed videos on his YouTube channel.

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Maybe a bit basic but I'm fond of Helvetica myself

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Any Inter fans? :(

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