Is it just me or does it look eerily similar to the font Anthropic uses?
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
#22For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)
1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/
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#23My default blank document Font settings in MSWord is Liberation Sans, Bold, 14 px. But my cataract problem is getting worse, and I may have to bump the size up yet again. I have yet to find another font I like as well.
Liberation Sans is indeed great, but I'm so intrigued: how did you end up preferring a libre font but a proprietary word processor?
Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
#24I 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).
Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
#25This 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
Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
probably to evoke the feeling of undergoing an eye exam.
I can hear the tech asking "number 1 or number 2"
Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
#27Fake testimonials.
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#28Re: Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
#29This 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
I remember this from when I was a child. Was maybe 4-5 and had not learned the letters yet. But I could turn my hand.
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#30I am looking for a very readable font and I like it. I am not in anyway qualified to compare it to Source Sans Pro or Opensans which I believe are considered very read friendly.