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Comment #47319965
There was a iOS jailbreak tweak called Treadmill where it exactly done that. Pretty cool to me. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadm...
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Comment #41576290
I did not check the source code but scanning UI and outcome is exactly the same as native iOS scanner.
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Comment #41331715
...and system font HN uses (Verdana) have glyph design for it, so it works.
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Comment #36928110
m, M, w, W, %, @ and i, l, ! (and so on) are the letters that create a challenge (or a room for creativity/individuality) ad they are so wide or so narrow. Wide letters often get c…
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Comment #32800659
It is more legible than your average "font-family: sans-serif” (aka Arial, Roboto, Helvetica) but it’s not that much of an “original idea”. For example Frutiger by Adrian Frutiger,…
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Comment #31919927
>Turkey continues to treat the Kurds awfully, and in recent times. Care to elaborate?
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Comment #31692887
Aegean sea has seen a lot of military exercises with both Greece and Turkey, I remember the Medusa-10 exercise with Greece, France, Egypt and UAE (and yeah, these are the sides whi…
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Comment #31551725
Does work for me for Turkish airline operators (I tried TK and PC)
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Comment #31508617
I can reproduce same behaviour on Safari 15.5
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Comment #28645604
Traditional RAW* wouldn’t be a black-and-white mosaic. It just would be data. RAW’s need to be demosaiced to be seen visually, which makes it dependent on software (or algorithm). …
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Comment #28598823
For reference, there’s a video which tests compatibility of 8 and SE 2’s parts. https://youtu.be/FTAQqih1DZs
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Comment #28446226
Reminds me of North Korea’s very own Red Star OS’ watermarking of the files. Starts at 34:55 https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star... TLDW: Operating system …
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Comment #28437213
It is also found at German eszett ß, which essentially is a ligature of “ſs”. Also that index finger is actually a unicode character ( U+261A)
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Comment #28238945
They also donated the income to a right to repair act.
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Comment #28220034
Yeah, I thought like that too. It could’ve been better though.
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Comment #28218779
Type design is never finished business. We do new faces, and sometimes just for the sake of novelty. It is even not needs to be new. Helvetica was designed by Max Miedinger and rel…
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Comment #28218518
Why your font choice matters: https://pimpmytype.com/open-sans/
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Comment #28218493
True but some foundries have had unrestricted licenses (i.e Swiss Foundry) or has recently changed (ABC Dinamo). I completely agree with the webfonts mess though, it’s just so hard…
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Comment #28212859
Most foundries offer perpetual licenses though, only foundries that offer yearly fee _that I’m aware of_ is Font Bureau and Dalton Maag, compared to maybe hundreds of foundries whi…
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Comment #28212679
Check “TeX Gyre Heros”. It is featured version of Nimbus Sans (aka Helvetica digitised by Bitstream) which were donated to X Consortium back then.
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Comment #28046572
It is because of focal length. Although phone manufacturers started to put “tele” cameras, primary camera is wide. Wide lenses mean there will be more coverage but things will get …
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Comment #28012332
It is not a replica, they are similar in style (they’re both neo-grotesk). Also the design of the letters can’t be copyrighted in the US, only the files (.otf, .ttf etc.) can.
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Comment #28012288
Check “Basier Mono” from Atipo. Regular weight is free and the other weights are quite cheap.
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Comment #28012262
“a” and “g” could be single-storey or double-storey. For example the font you’ve seeing now, Verdana, has double storey ‘a’ and single-storey ‘g’.