I didn’t know fonts would be capable of figuring out how many had been typed in order to swap the 7th regardless of which character it was, even with ligatures. That’s kind of crazy.
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#103I'm not sure if the serif-icity is the jarring part, I think it's the different point size (or whatever that word is for the horizontal height lines that fonts live within). 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.
It gives me flashbacks of bad OCR jobs and trying to copy sensible text out of the resultant messy PDF.
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#104have yet to open a postscript file without it looking like this
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#105Reminds 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
My phone doesn’t render that corr…oh
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#106The 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 Times New Roman, but every seventh letter is Papyrus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
saw this on SNL when it originally aired, hilarious!
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#107I don’t know if it’s a thing, but I often say I have font blindness; I don’t see the difference in fonts. If I can read it, it is text and I have to really stare for ages to see what’s wrong in this case. I would happily read a book with this font and not notice anything wrong, let alone it being jarring.
Edit; same with the hellvetica example; I have to consciously stare and think to see it’s not normal; I can read it, so my brain doesn’t give two shites about the font, spacing etc.
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#108Looks like a ransom note.
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#109Reminds 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're looking for a download link, this appears to be the least sketchy: https://img1.allbestfonts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hel...
The download link on the Internet Archive seemed to work as well
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#110One 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.
> Many kanjis in the Japanese text will default to the glyphs in the system Chinese font.
There is a solution if you're using Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration/Examples...