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Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by eru »

KMnO4 wrote: post #102
GekkePrutser wrote: post #87

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I really hate those restaurants that only have QR codes on the table for menus. A restaurant is for eating and talking, not for messing around with my phone. I avoid those now. During Covid there was a slight point (though it was pretty soon proven that surface transmission was so minor a factor not to warrant such actions). But now we should just go back to normal menus.

Heh. I went to a sushi restaurant recently and sat down to an iPad menu. After ordering a few rolls and confirming the order, it was delivered by a robot[0]. After finishing the plates, I returned them to the robot which carried them away. I scanned a QR code on the table which allowed me to pay for everything from my phone. Curiously, I was presented with options to tip 18%, 20%, 30%, or other. I thought about it an…

We have those in Singapore as well, but you are not expected to tip.

(Tipping in a Japanese restaurant is weird anyway. People don't do that in Japan, and they don't do it in any of the authentic Japanese places I've been to.)

IPad ordering is fairly common here. I like it, very efficient.

There's a sushi place around here that does iPad ordering, but they deliver your food on the customary conveyor belt, not via robot.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by eru »

verall wrote: post #147
Zak wrote: post #113

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I'm curious who would get the tip in this scenario. The sushi chef? Ok, I guess. The restaurant owner? I'm going with 0%. The robot? Maybe if it can pass a Turing test.

> The sushi chef? Yes, and most likely split with other cooks, host/hostess, and waitstaff for people that refuse to use the iPad. > The restaurant owner? Illegal in most states. What an iconoclast, refusing to tip hourly workers...

> What an iconoclast, refusing to tip hourly workers...

If everyone refused to tip, wages and prices would adjust.

(Tipping isn't even that old in the American culture. Perhaps a hundred years or so. And its introduction was seen as thoroughly unAmerican, and more in-line with those supposedly obedient Europeans groveling for handouts from their social superiors, instead of a proper American transaction amongst equals.)

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by chronogram »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #189
chronogram wrote: post #170

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GitHub link: https://github.com/ThomasJockin/readexpro

That is not a link to this font, unless Readex Pro is a rebranded Atkinson Hyperlegible. :) (From the Readme file, I'm pretty sure it isn't.) However: https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible

Oops you're right, Readex is the rename of Lexend. Sorry!

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by lelanthran »

soco wrote: post #23
cyral wrote: post #20

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Not sure why it wouldn't open for you, but it opens fine in Chrome on Mac. I thought it would be some ridiculous 50 page legalese but it's actually only 1.5 pages long. it's basically a license similar to what you'd see on a Github repo.

But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?

> But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF?

Yes. It's so that you have a dated copy. An web-page with the license on it can be retroactively changed.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by lelanthran »

verall wrote: post #147
Zak wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious who would get the tip in this scenario. The sushi chef? Ok, I guess. The restaurant owner? I'm going with 0%. The robot? Maybe if it can pass a Turing test.

> The sushi chef? Yes, and most likely split with other cooks, host/hostess, and waitstaff for people that refuse to use the iPad. > The restaurant owner? Illegal in most states. What an iconoclast, refusing to tip hourly workers...

> What an iconoclast, refusing to tip hourly workers...

He did tip the hourly worker who served him: he gave a tip that was a percentage of that servers wage.

What's unfair about that?

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by lelanthran »

throwaway14356 wrote: post #181
KMnO4 wrote: post #102

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Heh. I went to a sushi restaurant recently and sat down to an iPad menu. After ordering a few rolls and confirming the order, it was delivered by a robot[0]. After finishing the plates, I returned them to the robot which carried them away. I scanned a QR code on the table which allowed me to pay for everything from my phone. Curiously, I was presented with options to tip 18%, 20%, 30%, or other. I thought about it an…

ill put in my robotmancipation notes

> ill put in my robotmancipation notes

Missing episode in The Animatrix: the uprising started when robots didn't get tips.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by gizmore »

I am happy to announce;

i wrote a GDOv7 module to ship this font and will use it in one of my projects.

Of course, this projekt uses only Latin characters. (The fonts are like 20kb, i doubt they feature something asian.)

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by pkphilip »

Great idea! One comment though - on Firefox when I try downloading the font, it disallows the download stating that it is a security risk. That is because the font is being downloaded of a HTTP url rather than an HTTPS url.

I had to manually turn off that restriction in the firefox download to get the font downloaded. May be a good idea to have the download initiated from a HTTPS url

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