It's a good job they explained the joke.
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Wasn't there some theory about comics being improved by removing the final panel?
Definitely. I was going to post this:
Remove 4th panel.
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The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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 will look good in a children story-book. Not in a professional email.
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.
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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.
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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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
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If your font type was a person:
GIMME AN A
They did, in fact, nail it.
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.
Baskerville
This would totally be Brick from The Middle
Universal Grotesk
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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The subtle kerning of it, the tasteful thickness of it, my god it's even got serifs.
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.
Maybe a bit basic but I'm fond of Helvetica myself
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