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Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by Rendello »

arcticfox wrote: post #24
egypturnash wrote: post #20

I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page. "OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy “A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe

I think all the testimonials are fake, if this wasn't clear to everyone. I thought they might be real at first but none of them exist. I actually thought that was kind of shitty to do, since they use real companies and media outlets. (I don't really follow fonts but I do know there is a subculture crazy about them, so I thought it could be theoretically possible that people would write reviews of them).

You can click them, they link to their sources.

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by msikora »

jiehong wrote: post #25

This reminds me of the eye chart used in some countries, because it isn't based on reading letters, but on a direction. For example [0], you should indicate the direction where the E points to. [0]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MRfRwHwWL._SL1235_.jpg

This is for kids.

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by piker »

Rendello wrote: post #31
arcticfox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think all the testimonials are fake, if this wasn't clear to everyone. I thought they might be real at first but none of them exist. I actually thought that was kind of shitty to do, since they use real companies and media outlets. (I don't really follow fonts but I do know there is a subculture crazy about them, so I thought it could be theoretically possible that people would write reviews of them).

You can click them, they link to their sources.

> "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."

- the link under discussion

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by GranPC »

piker wrote: post #34
Rendello wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can click them, they link to their sources.

> "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else." - the link under discussion

Link rot is alive and well... unlike their links. https://web.archive.org/web/20190430201350/https://twitter.c...

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by pimlottc »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #5

That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy. https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....

That's horrible, the full page blur is less bad since it's so obvious. But man, you should never be intentionally gaslighting the user by making them second-guess their own vision.

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by artemisart »

jamesdwilson wrote: post #12
its-summertime wrote: post #9

that C is annoyingly O-ish, and the blurring... feels almost like its made by an anti-optician

it was derived from eye charts that are explicitly designed to find defects in your eyes - it is not a coincidence the O and C look similar.

Yes I don't understand how they can claim it's optimized for legibility when the base font does the inverse.

Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

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Post by jaysonelliot »

egypturnash wrote: post #20

I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page. "OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy “A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe

I work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.
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