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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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> "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...

It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a company on the landing page.

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

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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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_chart

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

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

There's an alternative, more squarish C; about half the letters have alternative glyphs. If you're using macOS Font Book, scroll down to the bottom of the repertoire to see the alt glyphs.

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

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

It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a company on the landing page.

Same energy as:

>I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product

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

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a company on the landing page.

Same energy as: >I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product

I'm Commander Sheppard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.

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

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From the designer's website (https://anti.as/optiker-k) it seems that this was commissioned by ANTI Hamar for the rebranding project for Optiker-K, a Norwegian optician and optometrists store.

This is fantastic! More custom fonts like this should be open sourced.

To me the font looks pretty legible. Worth noting that the font is from 2018, so it's not really a new font, but it is still one of my favorites.

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