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Am I the only that thinks "Wow people actually give a shit about this?". It seems comical how much people are willing tolerate this typographical circle jerk di
by verroq 14y ago
Am I the only that thinks "Wow people actually give a shit about this?". It seems comical how much people are willing tolerate this typographical circle jerk disguised as "designing".
I for one, cannot take this guy seriously when the title of his post isn't even antialiased (funnily enough with no kerning present). Or when he commits binary and swapfiles into his git repository.
- dfc 14y ago"Am I the only that thinks "Wow people actually give a shit about this?". It seems comical how much people are willing tolerate this typographical circle jerk disguised as "designing"." A lot of people care about the finer points of typography. If you really want to see some "circle jerking disguised as designing" take a look at a book by this nutjob named Donald Knuth: Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999) "Or when he commits binary and swapfiles into his git repository." Committing binary files is such an atrocious act. I for one am glad that github does not condone such immoral acts by showing the difference between images.
- martinced 14y agoBy your logic we'd still all be reading books as they were typeset hundreds years ago (hint: they're pretty dense and definitely not convenient to read) and we'd all be driving while trying to decipher poorly typeset roadsigns (which is very, very dangerous). All it takes is a few researchers to actually care, research, blog, write papers about the subject and then we all benefit from that research. Regarding the goold old "eat your own dog food" logical fallacy... By your logic, an engineer should not be allowed to do research, say, on electrical cars if he isn't himself driving an electric car. Sounds pretty extreme to me ; )