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The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by benjijay »

jonathanlydall wrote: post #9
ben_ wrote: post #4

Cool article but this first bit threw me off > The interpunct is still in use today—it’s the official decimal point in British currency (£9·99) When the linked wiki specifically points out that it isn't: > In British typography, the space dot was once used as the formal decimal point.

Fun fact, Windows 8 changed the decimal separator for the South African locale from a period to a comma. My theory is that some academic or idiot government official told Microsoft they're not using the official separator who duly fixed it. But in practice every "normal" person in the country used a period as a separator. By default, Excel now uses a comma separator for decimals. Which unless I change it, makes it es…

Tangentially reminds me of how, in an early build of Win11, the localisation team at M$ changed 'zip' to 'postcode' for the GB language pack

People then had a lot of fun being unable to extract their .postcode archive files which suddenly came into existence...

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by fhars »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #6

> “10^6” in the corner, and are marked “ten million dollars.” Being a factor of ten off when writing out such a common SI prefix as Mega is a bit impressive.

Probably designed by one of those young whippersnappers who never used a slide rule and confused 10^6 with 10e6, because that is how you enter big numbers on a calculator.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by InDubioProRubio »

In my opinion dystopianess is transported, the more you hold the now as contrast against the old. Take bladerunner- the presence of mechanical animals -the holograms of greenery, the presence of once beautiful buildings (like the Bradburry) held against a industrial produced, soulless item, highlights the decay and despair.

In this case, a caligraphy font https://www.1001fonts.com/calligraphy-fonts.html used, ocassionally on real signs, would be a great way to show the road into the dystopia.

The Hello Dolly footage servers + trinkets serves a similar function.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by Sharlin »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #6

> “10^6” in the corner, and are marked “ten million dollars.” Being a factor of ten off when writing out such a common SI prefix as Mega is a bit impressive.

Given that 99^6 is supposed to mean 99,000,000, it seem clear that the superscript is not meant to be exponentiation but rather just denote the number of zeroes following (ie. short for scientific notation à la the 99e6 syntax used in programming languages.)

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by Sharlin »

llimos wrote: post #7
ben_ wrote: post #4

Cool article but this first bit threw me off > The interpunct is still in use today—it’s the official decimal point in British currency (£9·99) When the linked wiki specifically points out that it isn't: > In British typography, the space dot was once used as the formal decimal point.

And the government website doesn't use it [1]. So hard to see in what sense it's "official". [1] https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees

To be fair, traditionally 95% of digital content has zero amount of typographical finesse and simply uses whatever is available in the local standard keyboard layout. Even the use of em and n dashes is a big deal.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by eesmith »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #6

> “10^6” in the corner, and are marked “ten million dollars.” Being a factor of ten off when writing out such a common SI prefix as Mega is a bit impressive.

I think the idea is that in the financial world of 2100, when on currency, 10⁶ should be read as short-hand for 10E6, not 1E6.

Thus, 99⁶ should be interpreted as 99E6, hence 99 million, as the author says.

We know already that SI isn't universally followed. As a rough comparison, if a food item contains 160 calories, we know that's 160 kilocalories - and calorie isn't an SI unit. Or, 1GB of RAM is often 1024^3 bytes, with relatively fewer people using GiB.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by ygra »

benjijay wrote: post #11
jonathanlydall wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact, Windows 8 changed the decimal separator for the South African locale from a period to a comma. My theory is that some academic or idiot government official told Microsoft they're not using the official separator who duly fixed it. But in practice every "normal" person in the country used a period as a separator. By default, Excel now uses a comma separator for decimals. Which unless I change it, makes it es…

Tangentially reminds me of how, in an early build of Win11, the localisation team at M$ changed 'zip' to 'postcode' for the GB language pack People then had a lot of fun being unable to extract their .postcode archive files which suddenly came into existence...

AFAIR it was the localized name of the file type. File extensions would never go through i18n/l10n.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by Tao3300 »

sksksk wrote: post #10

The most interesting thing for me was the Iconian Fonts website. One guy who is a "commercial transaction attorney for a global software and service company", that makes fonts as a hobby. On his commerical use page, he just asks for a $20 donation if you use a font commercially. I wonder if he realised that his fonts would be used in billion dollar movie franchises.

Per user/seat, so if they were honorable about it, it's probably a decent amount.
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