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Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by zimpenfish » Sat, May 27, 2023, 3:12 PM UTC

jredwards wrote: post #76

ybc37 wrote: 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

I've got an Instagram post titled with Zalgo and it is the only one that instaload can't backup because of the resultant filename. Which amuses me greatly.

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by DubiousPusher » Sat, May 27, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

I've never built a font. I had no idea you could do something procedural with them like this. I always assumed they were just a bunch of glyphs in a file.

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Sat, May 27, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #84

qwezxcrty wrote: post #63

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

There needs to be Latin unification too. How many times is 'a' in unicode?

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by acqq » Sat, May 27, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

esquivalience wrote: post #47

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm curious why type/font technology hasn't developed for variation in letters, where a handwriting or printing typeface (or "Ransom" :) could vary the letter "a" so all the "a"'s don't look alike, the same as happens irl. Why would you want that? It seems like it would be harder to read for no benefit.

I believe it exists and here is a list of reasons for it: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introduc...

Cool:

https://www.fontshop.com/content/enable-contextual-alternate...

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by anthk » Sat, May 27, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

ForOldHack wrote: post #11

Give me a font name that will offend more than 97% of the population, like !@^$-!@$!@$-!&%^!@-(*&!-BOLD.

That might be valid Perl code.

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by snprajwal » Sun, May 28, 2023, 6:51 AM UTC

Now we need an inverted version of this where every seventh letter of a sans serif font is jarringly serif

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by taneq » Mon, May 29, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

wtf_is_up wrote: post #127

taneq wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a path of Exile patch note that said “fixed keming”. :)

Speaking of PoE font bugs, here's an amusing tale of how a GGG dev finally fixed a 6 years old font rendering bug: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3277814

Nice! GGG has some awesome posts on their dev process. In this case I really hope the resource manager remembered to remove the cached pointer when it unloaded the font, or (until another font is loaded at the same address) it's a use-after-free waiting to happen. :S

Re: Times New Bastard

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Post by account42 » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

augustk wrote: post #19

Blahah wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think it's the different point size (or whatever that word is for the horizontal height lines that fonts live within). Agreed! The x-height [0] (among other things) differs jarringly between the serif and sans fonts used. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height#:~:text=In%20typogr... .

I wish you could specify the x-height of a font in CSS. If you mix serif and sans serif you want them to look like they have the same size. It would have been nice if the default browser fonts were selected to have the same x-height.

> It would have been nice if the default browser fonts were selected

Yes.