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Re: Times New Bastard

#92
post #65

Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...

This is beautiful for grating discomfort. And for over the top insanity, there's always Z̴͔̊ͤͨ̀ͅä͚̦̯̤͟l̸̤̙̰̥̝ͭ͛ģ͍̫̙̬̪̺ͯo̧̞̖ͤͪͦ͒ ̵̗͍̩͔̀ͭͪţ̪̯̘̭̤̲̰͗͒ͩͬe̢̤̙͇̘ͩ̓ͤx̷̩̤͕̺̍ͅt̩͔̪̠̞̳̟̱͂ͦ͜

Check out the old tweets from @glitchr_. You can do some wild stuff by exploiting Unicode rendering.

https://twitter.com/glitchr_

Re: Times New Bastard

#93
post #65

Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...

I was expecting the opposite, mostly sans-serif with the occasional serif, but the keming didn't disappoint.

Re: Times New Bastard

#94
post #65

Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...

Wow… this is actually impressive. It takes work to make something that’s tastefully jarring and awful.

Re: Times New Bastard

#96

One can get a similar, extremely ugly effect if one is reading Japanese text rendered on a Chinese language system. Many kanjis in the Japanese text will default to the glyphs in the system Chinese font. However, the kanas as well as some kanjis are not included in the Chinese font will be rendered with a failback font, frequently in a very different style.

Han unification was such a silly mistake

The ideal situation is there is a unified CJ(K) font that covers all the glyphs.

Re: Times New Bastard

#97
my eyes kept telling me the e was a theta θ symbol.

Visual context really matters and seemingly small or subtle things are, well, jarring or uncomfortable. Sort of the font equivalent of the “uncanny valley”

Re: Times New Bastard

#99
its a trojan horse - dont use it. AGPL license means that if you use this anywhere in your code you will need to make that code open source.

Re: Times New Bastard

#100
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd notice in the original screenshot/example linked: https://bouquetoftwelve.tumblr.com/post/186272155342/ommanyt...

That screenshot has the exact same problem.

No, it doesn't. Compare the heights of the 'ri' pairs, for example. In the Github repo, the difference is ginormous, the top of the 'r' is almost past the dot. In the original Tumblr mockup, the top doesn't even reach the same height as the dot. It's still too big to be subtle, but it's better.
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