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And the government website doesn't use it [1]. So hard to see in what sense it's "official". [1] https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees https://www.gov.uk/passport-
by llimos 2y ago
And the government website doesn't use it [1].
So hard to see in what sense it's "official".
[1] https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees
- Sharlin 2y agoTo be fair, traditionally 95% of digital content has zero amount of typographical finesse and simply uses whatever is available in the local standard keyboard layout. Even the use of em and n dashes is a big deal.
- ascorbic 2y agoTrue, but not in the case of gov.uk typography, which has had a huge amount of thought put into it. e.g. https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/12/making-the-gov-uk-frontend-typography-scale-more-accessible/ https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/12/making-the-gov-uk... https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-style https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-sty...
- dcminter 2y agoThe decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely. To show I have no ill will toward outlandish Britishisms, this one applied in Parliament until relatively recently... "To increase their appearance during debates and to be seen more easily, a Member wishing to raise a point of order during a division was, until 1998, required to speak with his hat on. Collapsible top hats were kept for the purpose." https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-information-office/g07.pdf https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-inf...
- Sharlin 2y agoYeah, I don't doubt you, just meant that web copy is usually so typographically impoverished compared to print that it's not in itself much of evidence.