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The Greek letters don't bother me so much as the ones where I am not quite sure if it's an ASCII x, v or w that is just being displayed with a different font, o

• JustFinishedBSG 5y ago
  That's more of an artifact of the font being badly designed though. Math requires excellent fonts if you don't want your reader to want to murder you by attempting to decipher the difference between L, calligraphic L, script L, italic L...
  • saalweachter 5y ago
    Math's fondness for using multiple fonts with semantic meaning is going to backfire when the next generation's math genius uses comic sans for the new math they invent.
    • enriquto 5y ago
      > the next generation's math genius uses comic sans for the new math they invent. The way you put it, it almost sounds as if that wouldn'be great!
      • kmill 5y ago
        Hmm, I'm tempted to use it for mathscr... It probably would even be more legible.