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I'm wryly curious why fonts are among the odd things that really get the goat of us turbo-nerds on forums like HN.
by komali2 3y ago
I'm wryly curious why fonts are among the odd things that really get the goat of us turbo-nerds on forums like HN.
- mihaic 3y agoWhen you spend most of your day staring at text on a screen, the minutia of how that text looks like become very important.
- AnthonBerg 3y agoThe centuries-old artistry of mass reproduction of thought has many wonderful minutiae!, as high technology often does.
- Biganon 3y agoIt has just the right balance of technology, art, history, and trivia fun facts. Makes it one of the best topics for us nerds. Also, programmers spend a huge fraction of their time reading. Reading code, reading docs, reading reading reading. Fonts are important for us from an ergonomic point of view (and it's also a matter of taste and aesthetics!)
- mrbluecoat 3y agoAgreed, same reason the Monaspace font 1.1 release made news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267120
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