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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can hear the tech asking "number 1 or number 2"

It's probably just me being a huge introvert, but I dislike saying "I am not sure do it again" more than twice and am always left a bit discontent wondering if the prescription is as good as it should be. I wish I could book 30 minutes alone with the machine and just dial it in perfectly myself.

It's worth finding an optometrist that you have a good rapport with for that reason. I got lucky and get along really well with the person that I see; the results are worth speaking up for.

(I had two somewhat persistent problems before I started seeing her... One was that my prescription was focused a little before infinity because the sign is 20 feet away and not infinity feet away. We tweaked some stuff and fixed that problem. The other was that if I'm tired and it's pretty low contrast outside, I always see double. We added some extra prism for that and it's helped a lot. I've had the same prism prescription for 30 years but adding more was a noticeable improvement.)

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

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I 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 work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.

It links to a tweet. I get a "not found" error there but that's, like, 78% of the Xitter links I click on ever since Musk went full Nazi.

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

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Nah Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille institute is the way if we're going for fonts from vision experts

You're confusing a font inspired by letter forms intended to test vision with a font designed to be forgiving of vision deficits.

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

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Nah Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille institute is the way if we're going for fonts from vision experts

You're confusing a font inspired by letter forms intended to test vision with a font designed to be forgiving of vision deficits.

that was my point
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