The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
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The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
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#2I really enjoyed this
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#3Impressing how much detail went into things nearly all viewers never see.
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#4Cool 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.
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#6> “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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#7Cool 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.
And the government website doesn't use it [1].
So hard to see in what sense it's "official".
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#8> “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.
Not to mention, 99^6 = 941,480,149,401 ≠ 99,000,000 (which TFA also quotes). But who's to say notation didn't degrade along with the rest of society? :^)
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#9Cool 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.
Fun fact, Windows 8 changed the decimal separator for the South African locale from a period to a comma.
My theory is that some academic or idiot government official told Microsoft they're not using the official separator who duly fixed it. But in practice every "normal" person in the country used a period as a separator.
By default, Excel now uses a comma separator for decimals. Which unless I change it, makes it especially fun when I want to paste values into my banking website which (like most of the country) uses a period as a separator.
Really, it would have been way more pragmatic if South Africa just changed its official decimal separator.
It also caused some annoying issues on our .NET with SQL Server software project. For example SQL seed scripts inserting decimal values would break depending on if they were being run on Windows 7 or 8. On the upside, it did teach us all to have our code be properly locale aware.
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#10The 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.