[HN Gopher] Tiresias typeface
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Tiresias typeface
Author : Tajnymag
Score : 78 points
Date : 2021-05-22 12:08 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
| sixothree wrote:
| What is the correct pronunciation of tiresias?
| cgio wrote:
| Tea-re-sea-ass
| StavrosK wrote:
| This is correct for the Greek pronunciation, though "re"
| should be read with a short "e", which is impossible in
| English, so "ray" is more accurate. The English is
| /taI'ri:si@s/, as above, I guess.
|
| Tea-ray-SEA-ass
| def_true_false wrote:
| Isn't /taI/ supposed to sound like tie and /ti/ like tea?
| And the short e would be /e/, as in check, bet or ten?
| Perhaps I'm missing something, my English pronunciation is
| pretty inconsistent.
| StavrosK wrote:
| Yes, that is exactly right. The IPA was meant to be how
| it's pronounced in English, the phonetic is how it's
| pronounced in Greek, except the e is as you say.
| thih9 wrote:
| I guess it's the same as in Tiresias (/taI'ri:si@s/) [1], the
| blind prophet from Greek mythology.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias
| laputan_machine wrote:
| I think this is the font used in the BBC's Red Button
| jacobmischka wrote:
| I'd be interested to read more on what makes it particularly
| well-suited for impaired vision.
|
| Unlike Comic Sans, which is noticeably distinct almost to the
| point of being displeasing, this just looks like a relatively
| standard sans-serif typeface.
| falcolas wrote:
| It doesn't need to be noticeably distinct from other fonts, it
| needs to be legible - each glyph needs to be clearly distinct
| from every other glyph, and still recognizable when blurry.
|
| That said, IMO, it fails the 0/O usecase, though it passes the
| 1/I/l usecase.
| nerdponx wrote:
| Could you fix it with a dotted 0?
| falcolas wrote:
| Dotted or slashed, yup.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Please don't use slashed O because then it is hard to
| distinguish the Norwegian/Danish character:
|
| "O (or minuscule: o) is a vowel and a letter used in the
| Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sami languages.
| It is mostly used as a representation of mid front
| rounded vowels, such as [o] and [oe], except for Southern
| Sami where it is used as an [oe] diphthong."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98
| philippantoni wrote:
| Funny seeing this linked here. Tiresias is honestly a fairly
| unremarkable typeface with a lot of marketing talk, heavily
| inspired by earlier humanist sans-serifs like FF Meta, but I
| remember seeing it as a UI font across several different
| manufacturers of TVs and set-top boxes (Sony, Panasonic, probably
| others) some years ago and finding it curious that they used the
| same (obscure) font. Maybe it was part of some embedded OS, or
| they just managed to sell some big companies on it.
| mFixman wrote:
| It's 2021, why are sans-serif typefaces still the most common way
| to read text? My 4K monitor can render detailed serif typefaces
| at very small sizes which are nicer and more legible than most of
| the text in the internet.
| zapzupnz wrote:
| If only the world had both your eyes and monitor. I have a
| large 5K display and don't find serif text nearly as easy to
| read, especially at small sizes, unless it's printed out on
| paper.
| _Wintermute wrote:
| Because most people aren't using 4k monitors.
| keiferski wrote:
| Not linked to in the Wiki article for some reason.
|
| _In Greek mythology, Tiresias ( /taI'ri:si@s/; Greek: Teiresias,
| Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for
| clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven
| years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph
| Chariclo.[1] Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in
| Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself._
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias
| amazing_stories wrote:
| Added. Thanks for the reference.
| ruph123 wrote:
| According to this video which consulted the available research on
| the topic (and has links to the actual research papers in the
| description), the legibility of Tiresias for people with impaired
| vision is unfounded (Can't look for the specific research right
| now because I'm on the go):
|
| https://youtu.be/41i9EN9l8uc
| deathwarmedover wrote:
| I had also seen criticism of it here:
| https://screenfont.ca/learn/
| fao_ wrote:
| In the same vein it's worth checking out Atkinson Hyperlegible --
| a typeface that I find utterly beautiful and I've personally
| found legible at extremely tiny sizes.
|
| https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
|
| I really, really want a monospace version, and while they've made
| the font "free software" (someone I know emailed them to double
| check the license), I lack the necessary knowledge to do that
| intrepidhero wrote:
| That's neat! I went looking for same thing. Checking out
| iosevka [0][1] now.
|
| [0] http://thedarnedestthing.com/iosevka%20hyperlegible
|
| [1]
| https://github.com/sdothum/dotfiles/tree/master/fonts/.fonts
| noir_lord wrote:
| I've used iosevka for years - the thing that makes it truly
| brilliant is you can configure it however you want based on
| the characters you prefer.
|
| I have iosevka-<myname>.ttf on all my machines with it tuned
| just how I like it.
| falcolas wrote:
| I really like that font. Nice find.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| > I really, really want a monospace version, and while they've
| made the font "free software" (someone I know emailed them to
| double check the license), I lack the necessary knowledge to do
| that
|
| OCR-B font has been around for many decades and doesn't seem
| all that different in style.
| fao_ wrote:
| Font design is all about the subtleties. I'm pretty sure most
| discrete classes of fonts look the same, distinguished by how
| they handle specific characters, and style and position the
| letters.
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