• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      7 months ago

      I really do hate that sans serif completely fucks I l | o O 0 among others.

      I should have those things on top and bottom l should have a curl. But no…

      Fwiw Verdana is the currently the recommended best ADA font.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        10·
        7 months ago

        Helvetica (and it’s clones), not all sans serifs.

        DIN has nice little feet on the l, as do:

        • Cabin
        • Cantarell
        • Comfortaa
        • Iwona
        • Kp-Sans
        • PT-Sans
        • MS Trebuchet

        Thank you for listening to my Typeface Talk.

    • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      104·
      7 months ago

      Fʀᴀɴᴋʟʏ, I’ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠɪɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʟᴏᴡᴇʀᴄᴀsᴇ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ. Sᴇᴇᴍs ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ’s ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ.

      • TimecirclelineEnglish
        62·
        7 months ago

        I read this in the voice of Death from Discworld. I didn’t even realize I had an internal voice actor assigned to him.

        • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          After reading this comment, I too read the comment it was responding to in the voice of Discworld’s Death. Something both warm and somewhat metallic.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        7 months ago

        Minuscule letters were invented to write on paper and similar materials, because curved strokes had lower probability of tearing the material (as opposed to majuscule letters’ angular features, adapted to carving in stone or similar materials). Now that we’re not restricted by materials, might as well only use one case

        • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
          15·
          7 months ago

          lower probability of tearing the material

          Is that well documented? I thought it was just because it makes writing more fluid, and people tend to evolve towards fluid movements when they repeat the same ones all the time as it requires less energy. Ex: high-level musicians or sport practicionners.

        • Rubanski@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          I’ve heard that that’s the reason alphabets from languages in the South East Asia (like Thai or Khmer) is all about circles as to not tear the writing material back in the day - leaves.

          • Thrashy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            I did a deep dive on this recently (my day job is in architecture, and in the US we infamously MAKE ALL NOTES ON DRAWINGS IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY WE’VE DONE IT SINCE WE HAND LETTERED IN BLOCK PRINT SO THAT DIFFERENT DRAFTERS’ SHEETS ALL LOOKED CONSISTENT) and it turns out that’s 100% just an acclimation effect – the old conventional wisdom of skilled readers recognizing lower-case word shapes doesn’t hold water. If tomorrow we deleted lower-case letters from every Latin font on earth, given time we’d be able to read all-caps text just as fast as we currently read sentence case.

            Which was disappointing for me to find out, since I REALLY HATE SHOUTING AT CONTRACTORS THROUGH THE PAGE ALL THE TIME and wish I could make a convincing case for sentence case, but oh well.

            • aulin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              That’s good to know. And in the premise of this thread it’s relevant. However, since we’re used to sentence case now, it still makes sense to keep it that way unless there’s a compelling reason to switch.

              On the other hand, street signs in Sweden, where I come from, are uppercase. I was completely used to that despite reading mostly sentence case in any other situation. However, since I moved to Denmark, where street signs are sentence case, I now feel like it takes slightly longer to parse signs when I go to Sweden. I guess if I’m correct, that’s a case for quick acclimatation, as this happened over only a few years.

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
        102·
        7 months ago

        Come to think of it, is there actually much of any point to capital vs lowercase letters? You know what the first word of a sentence is anyway because of the period before, and names can be identified by context. Why do we even have capitalization in the first place?

        • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          As I mentioned in another comment, the original reason we have majuscule and minuscule letters is the difference in materials they were written on. Having them persist in the typesetting is in fact more of a historical artifact

        • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          We need capitals, as otherwise shouting online would have to move to bold

            • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              Sure but that all takes extra keystrokes. Caps lock is cruise control for shouting

              Also the *shouts at you* tag was classic in chat things, but places like this need escapes to make them look right

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        Hmm. Still harder to read and comes across as yelling, even when the capital letters are itty-bitty…

      • greysemanticist@lemmy.oneEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        𐑯𐑴𐑐. 𐑿 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑛𐑵 𐑢𐑦𐑞𐑬𐑑 𐑤𐑴𐑼𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑓 𐑖𐑫𐑼.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    113·
    7 months ago

    It should be illegal to have a font where Il| are not all easily distinguishable.

    lI|

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Seems to be official. He hasn’t set up the domain but a bunch of prior posts and interactions make it seem real enough

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 months ago

    You are telling me that one of the most prolific and influential artist of our time, 5 time Grammy Award winning musician Weird Al Yankovic, would run his own social media account on a niche platform to crack jokes and shitpost on the Internet, as if celebrities are just regular people at the end of the day?

    I don’t know, maybe this is one of those “novelty account” I’ve heard so much about here.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    I ran into this exact scenario with an acquaintance on Facebook back when I engaged in such silly endeavors.

    Her name was Al and I couldn’t figure out for the life of me if it was Al or AI. I think I finally did ask, but damn I could NOT figure it out on my own. I suppose there must’ve been some way to copy paste it into word and configure to all caps, but the thought never occurred to me.