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If your font type was a person:
GIMME AN A
0xProto nerd font.
When you pick topmost font for ricing ur terminal
It's just that beautiful.
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.
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.
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.
yeah I said for big sizes. 16 is more mid, and not perfect for segoe's thin lines. i think verdana is still a bit too bulky for 16 but for any kind of vision impairment it should be great. you might want to try trebuchet. another low contrast default ms font but it's a bit more humanist and pleasing to look at in those sizes.
Fira Sans ♥️
Text looks good, but man the Number hight looks cursed and kinda random.
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.
Oh that makes sense, thanks for the information. Still would not want to use something thats not universal.
It appears that the middle line crosses the centre of mass.
Their shape is beautiful (from 3 to 9) but why were they not written on the same line?
lowercase numbers, check my comment above if you're interested
Came across Junicode 2 recently, and wow, what a typeface!
Very nice! What is the difference btw small caps and petite capitals?
Universal Grotesk
Maybe a bit basic but I'm fond of Helvetica myself
The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.
This has an art nouveau feeling.
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.
Love the lowercase, hate the uppercase. Look at what they did to my boy B.
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.
I have the urge to drink martini and rewatch The Great Gatsby.
And Jeeves & Wooster, and Poirot.
Poirot is obviously the inspiration here, in style and name.
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.
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.
that's how you teach them to highlight and copy/paste text
Wait, is this Comic Sans? Some just want to see the internet burn
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.
It will look good in a children story-book. Not in a professional email.
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.
You may enjoy these:
Comic Mono https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
Fantasque Sans Mono https://belluzj.github.io/fantasque-sans/
They're good, but I find both to be marginally less legible than Source Code Pro where the i and j are clearer, particularly when next to each other. The a is less clear in Source Code Pro though, so I'm still looking for the perfect font.
It's a good job they explained the joke.
Wasn't there some theory about comics being improved by removing the final panel?
you don't need 2 either. 1 is the setup, 3 is the punchline.
Wasn't there a subreddit about improving comics? Usually just removing the panel that rams the punch line down your throat.
Definitely. I was going to post this:
Remove 4th panel.
No. I like the "ew".
The "ew" saved it.
Monaspace Krypton for coding. I'll take no questions.
I’m more of a sans serif kinda guy
Baskerville
This would totally be Brick from The Middle
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