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I immediately thought it was about fonts, because I saw the website was “typenetwork.com”-never heard of them before, but their name rather obviously suggests t
by skissane 4y ago
I immediately thought it was about fonts, because I saw the website was “typenetwork.com”-never heard of them before, but their name rather obviously suggests typography over anything else.
Personally, I wouldn’t associate “type 1” without context with diabetes over its other possible meanings (type 1 fonts, type 1 errors, type 1 hypervisors, HIV type 1, herpes type 1, etc). Diabetes may well be the most famous example, but numbered types are very popular in medical science, and many other fields besides
- pastage 4y agoThat is an interesting fact, considering you seldom see type 1 refering to diabetes without the qualifier. I guess medical society is used to naming things and the problems with that. (Even though T1D is really too broad, often used to describe other types of diabetes)