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I used to tinker with fonts, colors, etc but as I’ve gotten older I just accept the defaults in most things. You can waste any number of hours on that stuff and

I used to tinker with fonts, colors, etc but as I’ve gotten older I just accept the defaults in most things. You can waste any number of hours on that stuff and in the end it makes very little difference.

Loughla 1y ago
And from an accessibility standpoint, default fonts and colors are very safe as well. They tend to be easier to see and process.
aaronbrethorst 1y ago
Or in this case, tinkering with fonts simply reduces legibility.
- Brian_K_White 1y ago
  Tinkering with fonts is the only way to get fonts that improve legibility by replacing ambiguous glyphs with unabiguoius. ie programmer fonts. Every day it boggles my mind that password managers use fonts that don't distinguish 1Il| 0O etc. cut & paste does not help when you need to speak them into a phone or type them into some other device. Same applies to simple part numbers, serial numbers etc, just all data. Something I say about complainers applies here: In the entire history of the world not one thing has ever gotten better by accepting something as it is. Go ahead and never tinker, but don't delude yourslef it's a virtue. It's merely something you're free to do because it doesn't actively harm anyone else.
jonplackett 1y ago
I wish I could tinker with the font on this website. It flickers as it scrolls and does my head in!
- mediumdeviation 1y ago
  It's the scanline effect, here's three lines of JS to disable it from the developer console s=document.createElement('style'); s.textContent='body::after{display: none !important}'; document.body.appendChild(s)
- deleted 1y ago
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dineol 1y ago
^^^ this, with life coming more to the ending part you start to value your time that you got left tinkering is good when you're < 30 or maybe even < 25
- soiltype 1y ago
  > No time spent learning, is time wasted. From TFA. If you don't want to tinker, don't! But it's absurd to suggest that it's only something for children to enjoy. (30 should not be considered near the end of your life btw.) Please don't tell others they should feel bad about learning for fun because they're adults.
- heavyset_go 1y ago
  Tinkering is good no matter how old you are, this is weird gatekeeping
Herring 1y ago
I still tinker as I get older, except instead of fonts I'm buying a dual monitor setup with a 6-foot standing desk.
heavyset_go 1y ago
Fonts are like my dotfiles, I fucked with fonts.conf a decade+ ago and have just lived with that since then. So I get to be very particular, but also not have to care about tweaking, I did all the work back when I had time for that. I will argue that if you stare at a screen for hours a day, might as well make it pleasant with good hinting/anti-aliasing/features and a professional font instead of Dejavu Sans lol
- opan 1y ago
  I wish this viewpoint were more common/well-known. Somehow people get it in their head that people are tinkering with all their stuff constantly and never working, but just as TFA says, you'll have configs that haven't changed in over 6 months and are customized to your liking so you can work more efficiently and comfortably. Get a new PC? rsync configs over, or git clone your dotfiles repo or whatever. The work you put in doesn't disappear.
porphyra 1y ago
I maintain a personal dotfiles repo on github, and when I start at a new job etc, I just git clone my dotfiles repo and then run ./setup.sh and everything is set up nicely with my fonts, colors, and stuff. It didn't take much effort at all and I get to use what I like. And I haven't tweaked my dotfile in years.
SchemaLoad 1y ago
Feeling the same. I used to have a highly customised Liunx setup, then I got a macbook from work and hated everything that was different from what my linux desktop did. But eventually you just get over it and realise it's all fine and works. Being unfamiliar with something is different from it being bad.
Cannabat 1y ago
My life hack for switching fonts - buy a Berkeley Mono license so I cannot possibly use any other font bc I’d be wasting money. Nice font too.

Loughla 1y ago

And from an accessibility standpoint, default fonts and colors are very safe as well. They tend to be easier to see and process.

aaronbrethorst 1y ago

Or in this case, tinkering with fonts simply reduces legibility.

Brian_K_White 1y ago
Tinkering with fonts is the only way to get fonts that improve legibility by replacing ambiguous glyphs with unabiguoius. ie programmer fonts. Every day it boggles my mind that password managers use fonts that don't distinguish 1Il| 0O etc. cut & paste does not help when you need to speak them into a phone or type them into some other device. Same applies to simple part numbers, serial numbers etc, just all data. Something I say about complainers applies here: In the entire history of the world not one thing has ever gotten better by accepting something as it is. Go ahead and never tinker, but don't delude yourslef it's a virtue. It's merely something you're free to do because it doesn't actively harm anyone else.

jonplackett 1y ago

I wish I could tinker with the font on this website. It flickers as it scrolls and does my head in!

mediumdeviation 1y ago
It's the scanline effect, here's three lines of JS to disable it from the developer console s=document.createElement('style'); s.textContent='body::after{display: none !important}'; document.body.appendChild(s)
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dineol 1y ago

^^^ this, with life coming more to the ending part you start to value your time that you got left tinkering is good when you're < 30 or maybe even < 25

soiltype 1y ago
> No time spent learning, is time wasted. From TFA. If you don't want to tinker, don't! But it's absurd to suggest that it's only something for children to enjoy. (30 should not be considered near the end of your life btw.) Please don't tell others they should feel bad about learning for fun because they're adults.
heavyset_go 1y ago
Tinkering is good no matter how old you are, this is weird gatekeeping

Herring 1y ago

I still tinker as I get older, except instead of fonts I'm buying a dual monitor setup with a 6-foot standing desk.

heavyset_go 1y ago

Fonts are like my dotfiles, I fucked with fonts.conf a decade+ ago and have just lived with that since then. So I get to be very particular, but also not have to care about tweaking, I did all the work back when I had time for that. I will argue that if you stare at a screen for hours a day, might as well make it pleasant with good hinting/anti-aliasing/features and a professional font instead of Dejavu Sans lol

opan 1y ago
I wish this viewpoint were more common/well-known. Somehow people get it in their head that people are tinkering with all their stuff constantly and never working, but just as TFA says, you'll have configs that haven't changed in over 6 months and are customized to your liking so you can work more efficiently and comfortably. Get a new PC? rsync configs over, or git clone your dotfiles repo or whatever. The work you put in doesn't disappear.

porphyra 1y ago

I maintain a personal dotfiles repo on github, and when I start at a new job etc, I just git clone my dotfiles repo and then run ./setup.sh and everything is set up nicely with my fonts, colors, and stuff. It didn't take much effort at all and I get to use what I like. And I haven't tweaked my dotfile in years.

SchemaLoad 1y ago

Feeling the same. I used to have a highly customised Liunx setup, then I got a macbook from work and hated everything that was different from what my linux desktop did. But eventually you just get over it and realise it's all fine and works. Being unfamiliar with something is different from it being bad.

Cannabat 1y ago

My life hack for switching fonts - buy a Berkeley Mono license so I cannot possibly use any other font bc I’d be wasting money. Nice font too.