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Excalidraw has proliferated quite widely in my company since we got Claude Code. Its a shame the default font is ugly, childish and inaccessible.

• lloydatkinson 7mo ago
  Whiteboard handwriting is childish?
  • walthamstow 7mo ago
    It's not on a whiteboard, nor was it written by hand. It's a computer font.
    • lloydatkinson 7mo ago
      The Excalidraw website describes itself as: Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. And the GitHub repo says: An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted. It's the intended design...
      • walthamstow 7mo ago
        Cool. I have stated my opinions on their intended design.
        • lloydatkinson 7mo ago
          Cool. I have stated the facts of the product.
  • bundie 7mo ago
    It just looks weird not childish.
• freedomben 7mo ago
  I love excalidraw, but I have to agree. It also looks very unprofessional so if you ever have to write customer-facing diagrams, you have tool fragmentation. I just stick to draw.io now (aka diagrams.net)
  • ChadNauseam 7mo ago
    Why does it cause tool fragmentation? You can change the font to a normal sans-serif font or to a monospaced font. Personally I like the default font. It looks weird to have my crappy doodles next to a normal computer font. The default one is very legible but has a style (and ligatures) that make it feel not too neat
    • freedomben 7mo ago
      Interesting, I'll have to check that out. Do you know if that a new feature (in the last few years)?