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To me this conversation is more about popular opinions in general and how many of them persist as a result of ubiquity over any sort of merit Times Roman is ju
by artsyca 6y ago
To me this conversation is more about popular opinions in general and how many of them persist as a result of ubiquity over any sort of merit
Times Roman is just another example of the defaults becoming the standard and we've all been trained to know the defaults serve hardly anyone yet we keep hammering away at them relentlessly as if they'll give us anything but default outcomes
- michaelcampbell 6y agoI love every article that comes up on HN/reddit about typography and fonts because the inevitable onslaught of "I find X unreadable and Y delightful because of Z" gives me new fonts to try. There is some objectiveness to this subject but damned little and 99% of the comments are opinion. As a developer of many years, I've learned to just skip over any post that uses any form of the 'readability' adjective. It's totally subjective, and the poster more often than not will have a religious fervor about their opinion.
- artsyca 6y agoStrong opinions held loosely. For a lot of us fonts were a key selling point of early computing and there's a story about Steve Jobs taking in design courses in fonts as an inspiration for the design of the Mac operating system. The whole concept of fonts on the machine is another example of the message in the new medium essentially encapsulating the old. Fonts are an important tradition going back to the printing press and we are rightfully protective of them.