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Their long S is really annoying, although truthfully I generally am unfamiliar with the long s in modern fonts so I don't KNOW if it really looks worse than it
by bryanrasmussen 8mo ago
Their long S is really annoying, although truthfully I generally am unfamiliar with the long s in modern fonts so I don't KNOW if it really looks worse than it needs to, but I feel it looks worse that it needs to and that makes it harder, for example I thought lest at first was left and had to go back a couple words after.
Anyway as I know from my reading history at 1400 it gets difficult, but I can make it through 1400 and 1300 with difficulty, but would need to break out the middle English dictionaries for 1200 and 1100. 1000 forget it, too busy to make that effort.
- isoprophlex 8mo agoHmm, I thought it wafnt fo bad, myfelf
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agooh my god, you're right, they just used an f, no wonder I found it so bad! That is really annoying. Enraging even.
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agoI should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast.
- zamadatix 8mo agoIt doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agojust noted that in reply to my post but repeat here: yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font. on edit: this was probably where my problem generally was, in lest and Maister and anything where the long s is next to a t it looks very like an f to me, although if I zoom to 170% then it is clear, however at that size it introduces its own reading problems; unfortunately my reading glasses are broken so I just struggled at a lower resolution.
- zamadatix 8mo agoHeck, I still struggle scanning it properly at high resolution so no worries!
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agoyeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.
- rhdunn 8mo agoThe text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`.
- poly2it 8mo agoProbably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S.
- KPGv2 8mo agoThis is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it with document.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville"; Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable.
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agothanks for the Baskerville recommendation. on edit: liked the Garamond better, since the font is a bit thicker, checked it on "ſpake" and was obviously a long S whereas on the thinner Baskerville still looked like an f to me. Although the original text was perhaps too thick for me.
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agohmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought
- krackers 8mo ago(function() { const SKIP_PARENTS = new Set(["SCRIPT", "STYLE", "NOSCRIPT", "TEXTAREA"]); const walker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT, { acceptNode(node) { const p = node.parentNode; if (!p || SKIP_PARENTS.has(p.nodeName)) return NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT; if (p.nodeName === "INPUT") return NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT; return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT; } } ); let node; while ((node = walker.nextNode())) { node.nodeValue = node.nodeValue.replace(/ſ/g, "s"); } })()
- NooneAtAll3 8mo agowhat?
- krackers 8mo agoThat will replace the long-s with the standard s. You can do the same for the thorn.
- BobAliceInATree 8mo agoInterestingly I found the long s annoying and I had to think every time I saw it, but I quickly got used to and could read it naturally after a few paragraphs.
- pavel_lishin 8mo agoEvery time I see a long S, I am reminded of "House of Leaves", where one of the characters encounters it for the first time as well, and starts using it everywhere for awhile.