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Something I find interesting about computer fonts and stuff is how much they remain the same over time, down to the bit. In phylogenetics, the passing of time i
by rozab 3y ago
Something I find interesting about computer fonts and stuff is how much they remain the same over time, down to the bit. In phylogenetics, the passing of time is measured by the molecular clock - the accumulated mutations that are constantly happening.
In a game I'm reversing right now there's an arial8.tga which struck me as feeling completely timeless, or out-of-time. The game is from the year 2000, but this exact file could have appeared in any game over like a 40 year timespan.
- bux93 3y agoPerhaps even longer. Arial dates back to 1982 and was meant as a metric-compatible lookalike for Helvetica which dates back to 1957, and is based on 1898's Akzidenz-Grotesk ; but of course at that time, filenames didn't yet have extensions.