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[–] milliams@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a good job they explained the joke.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't there some theory about comics being improved by removing the final panel?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely. I was going to post this:

Remove 4th panel.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I also like expression of the person finding out what they're talking about

[–] tweeks@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago

The "ew" saved it.

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[–] Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Love the lowercase, hate the uppercase. Look at what they did to my boy B.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

0 seems a bit too indistinguishable from O, but otherwise I'm also a big fan of the numbers.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

I think the font heavily reuses glyphs. 0 probably literally is the same glyph as O. I'm positive 9 is just a rotated 6 (I guess that's pretty common, although it's really obvious in Poiret).

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have the urge to drink martini and rewatch The Great Gatsby.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And Jeeves & Wooster, and Poirot.

Poirot is obviously the inspiration here, in style and name.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tiefkuehlkost@feddit.org 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Text looks good, but man the Number hight looks cursed and kinda random.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tiefkuehlkost@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh that makes sense, thanks for the information. Still would not want to use something thats not universal.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

idk what you mean by universal; this is a typographical choice. the only reason you see more uppercase numbers everywhere is because of typewriters and by extension computers. I don't think people make a point of lining numbers up with cap height in handwriting.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Their shape is beautiful (from 3 to 9) but why were they not written on the same line?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

lowercase numbers, check my comment above if you're interested

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If your font type was a person:

GIMME AN A

They did, in fact, nail it.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wait, is this Comic Sans? Some just want to see the internet burn

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] eighty@lemmy.one 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I saw a meme where it was "big brain" to use it for their IDE/notepad so I tried it out and my god it's not even funny how legible and easy on the eye it is.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

It will look good in a children story-book. Not in a professional email.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 days ago

Sure, but we use Papyrus, not Comic Sans.

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The subtle kerning of it, the tasteful thickness of it, my god it's even got serifs.

[–] odious@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I like Ubuntu Mono but I’ll admit it’s a bit flashy for a code font.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m more of a sans serif kinda guy

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago

Baskerville

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

Universal Grotesk

[–] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Monaspace Krypton for coding. I'll take no questions.

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[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This would totally be Brick from The Middle

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

ITC Avant Garde, so beautiful

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