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...
Keming is not important.
Times New Bastard
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#112Reminds 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...
Not dissimilar to my dyslexia.
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#113Neat. By a strange coincidence, I made something similar yesterday in a script to make each letter in HTML into a different font. I wanted to see if it would end up as an OCR-proof font: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0e3efc9240953c86a50a019b56c... An example: https://tmp.tonybox.net/chbgr.htm Rasterized and OCR'd: https://tmp.tonybox.net/ocr.pdf
Man that Fontemon got my phone steaming hot
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#114Reminds 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...
If you want to know the science behind this then here is a good video describing the process https://youtu.be/-Y-yKmzP-4U
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#115Neat. By a strange coincidence, I made something similar yesterday in a script to make each letter in HTML into a different font. I wanted to see if it would end up as an OCR-proof font: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0e3efc9240953c86a50a019b56c... An example: https://tmp.tonybox.net/chbgr.htm Rasterized and OCR'd: https://tmp.tonybox.net/ocr.pdf
Sounds interesting. Mind sharing the gist (hehe) of your results?
Big fan of on-a-whim-experiments.
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#117Reminds 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...
Hmm, that seems slightly overdone, this just looks like noise to me. Would be much more annoying if every so often a letter was eve r so s|ightly wrong.
It looks like a cheesy movie ransom demand letter, with letter cut out of pages of magazines.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see a lot of the "why do people hate Comic Sans" articles on the web think it's just because it's a handwritten, casual font used in inappropriate situations, but this seems like post-hoc rationalization. It's the Comic Sans look specifically that people intensely dislike, not "handwritten" fonts in general. The original and better case against Comic Sans was that there were much better handwritten, comic-text-styl…
stylistically, my personal taste is that Comic Sans is exactly the right font to use for serious warning signs like in a kitchen, such as "DON'T TOUCH, handle gets HOT" or something. Anything official looking I have a tendency to ignore as boilerplate, but comic sans seems like a personal friendly message directed at me if any of the objection is to the precise letter drawings, ok fine, give me a different one, but t…
> like a personal friendly message directed at me
Yes, like a clown talking to you while honking his nose. Amusing and ignorable.
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#119The biggest problem with this is that it's too obvious, if you really want to fuck with people it should require more effort for them to tell what's wrong. An insidious little niggle that grates upon the mind.
Maybe instead it just ligatures in common typos even though you spell the word correctly:
handle becomes handel
Or strip out past tense:
fined becomes fine
Also: You're always spelled as your; Oxford commas never; Two becomes too Public becomes pubic