The book (https://typesetinthefuture.com/2018/12/11/book/>) is a fun read, too! I think it was David Plotz who said "read more books with pictures." Interviews, gorgeous looking, and does a good job showing the whole world you can miss by just watching a movie once (or even twice) without really seeing everything. It gives a good sense, too, of how movies first create the standards for "future" and then proceed to subvert or reference those standards.
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#22Impressing how much detail went into things nearly all viewers never see.
For sure! But just because you don’t “see” it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a huge impact on the feel of the movie, your impression of the characters, and on the storytelling, which is ultimately why these “invisible” decisions were made :)
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely.
To show I have no ill will toward outlandish Britishisms, this one applied in Parliament until relatively recently...
"To increase their appearance during debates and to be seen more easily, a Member wishing to raise a point of order during a division was, until 1998, required to speak with his hat on. Collapsible top hats were kept for the purpose."
https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-inf...
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#24> “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.
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#25Cool 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.
Stood out to me too, as was sure that was not true. I'm a native Brit, I'm on the wrong side of mid-40s, often read historical literature that uses pre-decimal currency (and notation), and have never seen an interpunct used at all, or heard it referenced in terms of British currency until today.
Unfortunately, I'm the sort of pedant who on seeing somebody state an incorrect fact with such certainty, I doubt the veracity of the rest of what they have to say. I wonder where the author got this idea from?
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#26The 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.
This man has created six hundred fonts...!
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#27The 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.
Would this be more than 100 seats? $2000 is still not a lot. Would you theoretically need a license for every employee involved in the movie or only those which would actually work with the font?
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#28The 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.
I wouldnt care about the money but i would care about the credits.
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#29I just love the immersion that articles like these provide
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#30> The interpunct is still in use today [...] decimal point [...] dot product [...] separate titles, names, and positions
Some·times it is it al·so seen
To cla·ri·fy the way
That syl·la·bles and me·ter meet
In things we say to·day
Which ex·tends from hea·vy use
In pla·ces not so mer·ry
For proof of this phen·o·men·on
Con·sult a dic·tion·ary