[HN Gopher] A Checklist for Choosing Type ___________________________________________________________________ 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 | jheriko wrote: | now if only google fonts and noto were uncensored instead of | using outdated religious sensibilities to remove their practical | utility...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] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-19 23:01 UTC)