Funny seeing this linked here. Tiresias is honestly a fairly unremarkable typeface with a lot of marketing talk, heavily inspired by earlier humanist sans-serifs like FF Meta, but I remember seeing it as a UI font across several different manufacturers of TVs and set-top boxes (Sony, Panasonic, probably others) some years ago and finding it curious that they used the same (obscure) font. Maybe it was part of some embedded OS, or they just managed to sell some big companies on it.
Tiresias typeface
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#22Not linked to in the Wiki article for some reason. In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/taɪˈriːsiəs/; Greek: Τειρεσίας, Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo.[1] Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself. https://e…
Added. Thanks for the reference.
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#23According to this video which consulted the available research on the topic (and has links to the actual research papers in the description), the legibility of Tiresias for people with impaired vision is unfounded (Can’t look for the specific research right now because I’m on the go): https://youtu.be/41i9EN9l8uc
I had also seen criticism of it here: https://screenfont.ca/learn/
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#24It's 2021, why are sans-serif typefaces still the most common way to read text? My 4K monitor can render detailed serif typefaces at very small sizes which are nicer and more legible than most of the text in the internet.
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#25It's 2021, why are sans-serif typefaces still the most common way to read text? My 4K monitor can render detailed serif typefaces at very small sizes which are nicer and more legible than most of the text in the internet.
Because most people aren't using 4k monitors.
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#26It's 2021, why are sans-serif typefaces still the most common way to read text? My 4K monitor can render detailed serif typefaces at very small sizes which are nicer and more legible than most of the text in the internet.
If only the world had both your eyes and monitor. I have a large 5K display and don’t find serif text nearly as easy to read, especially at small sizes, unless it’s printed out on paper.
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#27In the same vein it's worth checking out Atkinson Hyperlegible -- a typeface that I find utterly beautiful and I've personally found legible at extremely tiny sizes. https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont I really, really want a monospace version, and while they've made the font "free software" (someone I know emailed them to double check the license), I lack the necessary knowledge to do that
> I really, really want a monospace version, and while they've made the font "free software" (someone I know emailed them to double check the license), I lack the necessary knowledge to do that OCR-B font has been around for many decades and doesn't seem all that different in style.
Font design is all about the subtleties. I'm pretty sure most discrete classes of fonts look the same, distinguished by how they handle specific characters, and style and position the letters.
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#28Since 2017 I have used the Go (Golang) Monospace TrueType fonts:
https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
They are clear, unambiguous, and pleasing to the eye!