641–650 of 738 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"wasteful diversity move" Wild. I'm curious now if someone has an ordered list of fonts from the gayest to the straightest.
[flagged]
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital. > Images - Use the original, which is digital. > horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF > horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website. A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.
an example from today (pdf warning): https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Aut...
Why didn't they fax it back and forth a few times as well, just for good measure?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital. > Images - Use the original, which is digital. > horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF > horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website. A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.
it's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these. images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability
Unless they are making documents on typewriters. And in those cases neither Biden or Trump font is an option.
IMO Calibri and Times New Roman are both poor choices: they are not free. The US Government’s works are not generally subject to copyright, and IMO it’s rather obnoxious for their fonts to be restricted. Also, Calibri is specifically a Microsoft font, and maybe the government should be a bit less beholden to Microsoft. IMO the government should pick something available under an appropriate free license or commission…
This is my view as well. That being said, Time New Roman is marginally better because there are several good, modern open source alternatives with the same metrics that can be substituted. And there's good tool support virtually everywhere for those alternatives, like in TeX. There is a metric-compatible open alternative to Calibri (Carlito) but it seems more vulnerable to lawyer shenanigans and doesn't have extensiv…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"wasteful diversity move" Wild. I'm curious now if someone has an ordered list of fonts from the gayest to the straightest.
[flagged]
You sound like someone saying we shouldn’t have ramps and elevators because crutches exist.
Our studio, LucasFonts, designed Calibri. Here are our CEO Luc(as) de Groot’s thoughts on the matter: The decision to abandon Calibri on the grounds of it being a so-called “wasteful diversity font” is both amusing and regrettable. Calibri was specifically designed to enhance readability on modern computer screens and was selected by Microsoft in 2007 to replace Times New Roman as the default font in the Office suite…
If you cannot say it then let me: that spiteful, revengeful petty-minded fuckwit needs to be told that it's a fucked decision of the first order, and that someone in his position has no right nor the time to be involved in grinding the minutiae of state so fine.
Heaven help us, please!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"wasteful diversity move" Wild. I'm curious now if someone has an ordered list of fonts from the gayest to the straightest.
[flagged]
The wild thing is that even if you don’t respect the switch to Calibri on the grounds that it doesn’t really benefit anyone and is therefore wasted effort for little or no gain, the decision to switch back is a decision to double that wasted effort.
That said, it’s clear from the daring fireball story linked in the thread that this is being super overblown and Rubio isn’t really making an argument that Calibri is wasting money. This is an arbitrary decision.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What an odd take. Every administration does this sort of petty stuff. nothing new under the sun.
Petty as in 'small and does not really matter' or petty as in 'vindictive'. All administrations do many small things that may not ultimately have much impact, but often those may be for benign reasons. Understanding the reasoning behind the decisions would help in determining what kind of 'petty' this is.