[HN Gopher] A Checklist for Choosing Type
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A Checklist for Choosing Type
Author : Paul-Craft
Score : 58 points
Date : 2023-07-19 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (fonts.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (fonts.google.com)
| curryhoward wrote:
| > Comic Sans is perfect for setting children's activity
| timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It's
| perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific
| breakthroughs.
|
| Simon Peyton Jones would beg to differ. :)
| dllthomas wrote:
| I enjoyed his talk on adding lambdas to Excel, in general, but
| one particular bright spot was when someone asked why the
| slides weren't Comic Sans and he explained (my paraphrase...)
| that he had to give the talk outside Haskell circles and the
| rest of the world doesn't love him enough to forgive Comic
| Sans.
| jheriko wrote:
| now if only google fonts and noto were uncensored instead of
| using outdated religious sensibilities to remove their practical
| utility...
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| What do you mean?
| taremareby wrote:
| > Comic Sans is perfect for setting children's activity
| timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It's
| perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific
| breakthroughs.
|
| If it was good enough to present the discovery of the Higgs boson
| [1], it is good enough for me.
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/m-dNqCbRc_Y?t=26
| behnamoh wrote:
| Higgs Boson scientists are not necessarily graphics design
| experts. From what I've seen, a lot of times scientists just
| pick a font from Word and don't care much about it.
| gffrd wrote:
| But imagine the response the Higgs boson COULD have gotten by
| setting it in Arial instead!!!
| unethical_ban wrote:
| Interesting, but I was hoping for something more prescriptive.
| And all the articles seem to be out of order. There is no "first"
| article for learning about typefaces.
| golergka wrote:
| Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN
| front page lately?
| inbx0 wrote:
| I don't know if it's what's happening here, but it's a common
| phenomenon in HN that a post starts a trend of posts with a
| similar theme. People discuss a subject, they post some links
| to related projects in comments, other people wander into those
| links and find them or the links that those pages have worthy
| of their own HN posts.
| squokko wrote:
| Overall people in software cannot stop talking about fonts
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| We're in kind of a golden age of font quality and variety,
| and have widely available screens able to actually show &
| benefit from the details. It's almost the only fun thing
| about the current stage of computers/the internet.
|
| I think we're also individually creatively starved from a
| generation+ of dismissing artistic and aesthetic pursuits.
| It's a socially-acceptable-within-computer-people-society way
| to acknowledge and participate in the creation of beauty.
| mgaunard wrote:
| and yet Arial and Courier New remain the go-to fonts for
| me.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| At one time today, there were at least four typeface-related
| threads on the front page. That seems far outside the average.
| bobbylarrybobby wrote:
| I'm goin to guess that the recent Commit Mono post started it,
| it fizzled out a tad, and the Sweden font post yesterday kicked
| off some additional interest
| soulblaze3 wrote:
| [flagged]
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