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Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be
- Sharlin 8y agoHellvetica.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- mockingbirdy 8y agoI like how it makes me angry. Finally feeling something again. Thank you for making this world a better place.
- yay_cloud2 8y agoI love how a font can inspire this kind of deep, primal anger. Like smelling salts for the feels.
- setquk 8y agoYes. My other half hasn’t got over the 30 minute rant and regular random explosions about it to this day when we hired a plumber and his van had comic sans and clipart from Microsoft office on the side. This was 15 years ago.
- aasasd 8y agoWhile we're on the pedantry topic, I'd like to put in a word for proper sentence structures.
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoYou don’t realise it until you see something truly bad. I remember there was an algorithms book that was set in this typeface that was literally difficult to read. It made it harder to process the content. The way things look is important.
- alanh 8y ago> this typeface Which?
- Exuma 8y agoMy guess is he replied to the wrong comment, and meant comic sans
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoPerhaps I should have said “some typeface”. I can’t remember the name of the book or the font. I remember the book was laid out using TeX though.
- 7six 8y agoOmg kerning
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- VikingCoder 8y agoIt's unbearable.
- Brometheus 8y agoStill a better love story than twilight.
- labster 8y agoI'm so tired of Helvetica everywhere that this is actually an improvement. Once upon a time it was a great way to make an modernist artistic statement, like "Ill" should be three straight lines. Now Helvetica is a meaningless default choice.
- bjoli 8y agoHelvetica is a fine default choice. So is Arial or verdana or any other "boring" font. I'll go one step further and claim that the times i visited a website where the selected fonts actually improved over browser defaults can be counted on one hand.
- kqr 8y agoI don't agree about Verdana. Boring typefaces are fine; typefaces designed for the 640x480 displays of the 1990's have very little space today.
- bhaak 8y agoYMMV but I found Verdana to be a perfect font for my Kindle. Granted, it's a Kindle Touch, I don't know if I would choose it again on one of the newer models (not that I would buy one, Amazon's locking up of those models makes a thriving homebrew scene impossible).
- hinkley 8y agoOne one project we had to cram a lot of text into a columnar UI. A UI that would be used in meetings on a projector. So we had everyone stand at the back of a medium sized conference room and do a poor man’s eye exam. Verdana had the smallest font that was still readable. Narrower font means less line wrapping and text clipping. None of us knew any font lore so I didn’t learn until much later that this was a design goal of Verdana, but I’d say mission accomplished. Corporate tools at headquarters didn’t like it, and with no context demanded we change it back to a “normal” font. Apparently I’m still upset about this.
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- jerrre 8y agoStrange how the italic version seems much less bad.
- sdx23 8y agoless bad? To me it's awful with the different thicknesses (not sure, perhaps something is broken with how it's rendered here). https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png
- raimue 8y agoAt first I was not sure whether the web font was maybe not properly loading.
- zanchey 8y agoIf you liked that, you'll love Comic Papyrus! http://www.barthandco.com/blog.php?i=5 http://www.barthandco.com/blog.php?i=5
- mullikine 8y agoI want to remove my eyes now
- jdironman 8y agoThanks, I hate it.
- macawfish 8y agoI love it
- meanmrmustard92 8y agokill it with fire.
- finaliteration 8y agoSoon to be found on passive aggressive notes from office managers everywhere.
- GW150914 8y agoThe only font made under a DARPA contract to sap the will to live from enemy graphic designers.
- Odenwaelder 8y agoOH GOD MY EYES
- imron 8y agoThe quick brown fox.
- sanlyx 8y agoGrumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack
- FactolSarin 8y agoI don't get it. Helvetica is a perfectly okay font.
- adamtulinius 8y agoIt's a joke.
- FactolSarin 8y agoObviously it's a joke. But I didn't get it. I thought this was making fun of Helvetica, but as was pointed out elsewhere, apparently its not. This is basically "poorly kerned Helvetica." Which was the part I missed.
- adamtulinius 8y agoIf you knew it was a joke, you could have asked for an explanation instead. ;)
- FactolSarin 8y agoI thought that was implicit in "I don't get it."
- johnalamosisi 8y agoDisgusting
- metaphor 8y agoFor those of us outside the graphic design bubble, the author's top-level post[1] briefly explaining his madness. [1] http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/ http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/
- phakding 8y agoI am a font snob and was about to leave a strongly worded comment for suggesting this font. Your comment saved me for making a fool of myself.
- ecocentrik 8y agoThe XKCD quote was a pretty good indication of the author's intent. I like it and will be using it in place of comic sans for all my inter office punnery. As much as I like graphic designers, the ability to give them an occasional seizure is hard to pass up.
- mirkules 8y agoHalf the developers on my team wouldn't notice this. Another 45% wouldn't care. The last 5% would lose their hair trying to convince management why customers would hate it and how detrimental to the UX the font is, while consistently seeing it pushed to the next release because feature deadlines. This font is the kind of stuff that gives me nightmares.
- DonHopkins 8y agoThere should be a fixed with version of Smelvetica for programming, where each character is artistically justified within the character cell.
- ecocentrik 8y agoThe fun of this font is sharing it with others. Fixed width fonts are mostly used in personal/personalizable settings.
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- kensign 8y agophotoshop 4, all over again
- pfdietz 8y agoI always spell it "keming".
- wjp3 8y agoBest comnet ever.
- frabert 8y agoThat's because of bad keming
- 21 8y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/keming/ https://old.reddit.com/r/keming/
- Stratoscope 8y agoFans of typographic humor may enjoy Liz Crain's ceramic work. One of her specialties is ceramic pieces that look like old rusted metal cans. And her husband is a retired typesetter, so the cans often feature typographic themes. After buying her Interrobang piece a while back, we asked her to make a Keming can to go with it. Here they are together: https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb/A https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb/A I love the way she made it so you can see both the "m" and the "rn". http://lizcrainceramics.com/ http://lizcrainceramics.com/
- shdon 8y agoThis is the kind of thing I'd put in a CSS stylesheet on April Fools Day.
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- chriswarbo 8y agoLooks fine to me. I presume it's trying to use a Web font or something, which is a "feature" I specifically disable in browsers that support it. Doing so also makes pages load faster, lets me read partially-loaded pages without the text jumping around, decreases my attack surface and (most importantly) lets me read all text in a reasonably sized, reasonably spaced sans-serif font.
- macawfish 8y agoWell aren't you a special unicorn ;p
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- bborud 8y agoEver since seeing Sans Bullshit Sans (http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/) I've always wanted to pull a font-related prank at the company where I work.
- 21 8y agoNeeds a blockchain & co update
- currysausage 8y agoYup, plus IoT, internet of things, internet of everything, virtual reality, mixed reality, machine learning, AI, artificial intelligence...
- failrate 8y agoOddly, it didn't censor "leveraging".
- wincy 8y agoIt censors “leverage” though. It’s funny how universally “bullshit” these terms are considered to be.
- jjgod 8y ago> This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source font editor. Pretty sure the license won’t allow you to do any modification to the font installed on your system.
- BonesJustice 8y agoheh, I’ve seen so many layout and rendering issues with custom fonts in the browser, I honestly couldn’t tell whether this was a joke or a glitch ;)
- cylinder714 8y agoI must inform the OpenBSD team!
- Tloewald 8y agoWait, isn't that just Arial?
- adrianN 8y agoThis seems to be the font that Rational DOORS uses. Also Rational ClearQuest, but only in IE.
- Exuma 8y agoThis makes my anxiety so bad
- rangibaby 8y agoOh god Serious: Neue Haas Grotesk is Helvetica the way it is supposed to be: http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/ http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/
- brennebeck 8y agoTo quote Slipknot: “I push my fingers into my eyes It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache”