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No. I don’t want the gov wasting money making a fucking font. There’s a few dozen off the shelf fonts that would work for 99.99% of people. For those who it d
by moomoo11 11mo ago
No. I don’t want the gov wasting money making a fucking font.
There’s a few dozen off the shelf fonts that would work for 99.99% of people.
For those who it doesn’t work, deal with it. It’s a font. Or fallback to system font.
- echelon 11mo agoYou know the fonts on our roads are standardized? And a lot of other official documents? Designing a font that will be public domain forever costs next to nothing. It's a one-time cost that pays dividends into the future and that will probably outlive us. The government would create something standard and accessible, and anyone could use it. No encumbered licensing. I think companies refreshing design systems is a waste of money, but the government doing it is actually incredibly prudent.
- moomoo11 11mo agoI don't think you understand how gov spends money lol. What you think is "next to nothing" will 99% turn into $300 million dollars and 10 years later about $4 billion will have been spent. And 100% there are people waiting to milk the gov doing this. Maybe you are one of them? In that case...
- oneeyedpigeon 11mo ago> will 99% turn into $300 million dollars Only because of corruption, which should be dealt with of course, but that's a totally separate issue that doesn't invalidate the act of making an open font.
- amluto 11mo agoNeither Calibri nor Times New Roman are free to use, although they are free in certain contexts for Windows users. The US Government is paying plenty for them.