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Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by DiabloD3 »

Razengan wrote: post #172
DiabloD3 wrote: post #17

Although the font did really try to nail its goal, I think Iosevka really nailed it. On top of that, somebody took some of what Atkinson did with their font, and applied it to Iosevka, using its insanely powerful ability to be customized wildly, to produce http://thedarnedestthing.com/iosevka%20hyperlegible

Umm that website is barely legible, let alone hyper. Small, thin, spindly, faint, what the hell? (On Safari Ventura)

I think that was done on purpose.

It's rather awful contrast, with the color choice making it worse, yet I can read it at 100% zoom when I would otherwise be unable to with any other font choice.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by ryanmarsh »

cyral wrote: post #106
ryanmarsh wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was showing this exact problem to my wife, a moment after trying to order something from The Container Store and their website being broken, just after trying to pay a bill and that website not working too. I swear to God this f**ing industry.

Do you have an adblocker on? It will frequently break sites especially in the checkout process I have found (probably because their crappy code calls some tracking/analytics script without try/catch and can't continue). 90% of the time disabling it for the page will fix these broken sites.

Thanks for troubleshooting for me but no. Just a stock popular browser.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by ryanmarsh »

GordonS wrote: post #160
ryanmarsh wrote: post #79

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I was showing this exact problem to my wife, a moment after trying to order something from The Container Store and their website being broken, just after trying to pay a bill and that website not working too. I swear to God this f**ing industry.

I'm always coming across airline and hotel sites that don't work for days at a time, or which don't work in Firefox etc. Latest was EVA Air a week ago. When I think about the money these kind of sites in particular must be losing from shoddy engineering... I honestly don't know how their devs get away with it!

I’ll tell you how, because I had a client in this exact situation. The business just sees fluctuations in sales. They don’t see error rates. In traditional businesses SW engineering keeps the dynatrace logs close to the vest.

I convinced a dev to walk me through their dynatrace console. I dug in and took screenshots then gave them to h to the business. The business demanded access to dynatrace and then was able to correlate error rates with revenue fluctuations (down to the hour of the day, people are habitual). They came up with a cost factor and figured out how much they’re losing. This led to budget being allocated for a project to solve these problems. I bid on the work but was denied. The VP of IT at this point hated me.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by garfieldnate »

boltzmann-brain wrote: post #222
jdknezek wrote: post #194

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I made my best attempt at this. I made custom Iosevka[1] builds that use the letter shapes from this font. I call it Hypersevka, and the build plans are available at [2]. [1] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [2] https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/private-build-p...

Any chance you'd make a derivative font - monospaced or not - that uses different letter heights (i forget the technical term) for dyslexic users?

What are the PTL files in the repository? GitHub doesn't identify the language, and I don't recognize it, either.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by nurettin »

onetom wrote: post #182
fercircularbuf wrote: post #176

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For the life of me I just can't get over how different the g is from the rest of the letters. I find it incredibly distracting, so I can't use this font.

Their paid (120 USD) Monolisa Plus variant does have the regular g, though.

For some reason I can't stop giggling at this.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by jdknezek »

anymoonus wrote: post #215
jdknezek wrote: post #194

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I made my best attempt at this. I made custom Iosevka[1] builds that use the letter shapes from this font. I call it Hypersevka, and the build plans are available at [2]. [1] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [2] https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/private-build-p...

Nice. Any chance you can post a screenshot?

Sure! Here are some screenshots (Iosevka customizer then VS Code):

https://imgur.com/a/iLejIfc

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by HyperSane »

verall wrote: post #148
HyperSane wrote: post #140

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An electronic menu can also have prices that change every hour based on how busy the place is or even have prices based on demographic information gleaned from the user's phone.

What restaurants do this?

None that I'm aware of, but it WILL happen.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by arthur2e5 »

garfieldnate wrote: post #234
boltzmann-brain wrote: post #222

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Any chance you'd make a derivative font - monospaced or not - that uses different letter heights (i forget the technical term) for dyslexic users?

What are the PTL files in the repository? GitHub doesn't identify the language, and I don't recognize it, either.

That’s the "Patel" programming language used to define Iosevka. See https://github.com/be5invis/PatEL.
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