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> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very

by Terr_ 2mo ago

> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I already had an inordinate fondness for the disambiguations of OCR-A [0]... > HARRISON FORD Hold up... Why is that one twisted!? Is it an optical illusion? Am I going nuts? Nope. I opened it up in GIMP and I'm not (that type of) crazy: The H is ~4 pixels higher than the D, as if the whole thing was rotated by 1° clockwise. However the same rotation isn't present on the which appear cards immediately before and after. I assume this is subtle quirk introduced the video-editing process, but if it happened today (instead of back in 1982) I could entertain the idea that it's One Weird Trick intended to attract viewer attention via subtle wrongness. > we obsess over the details. "I'm doing my part!" <Starship-Troopers salute> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A

staticshock 2mo ago
Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.
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teraflop 2mo ago
I mean back in the day, those kinds of titles involved film editing, not video editing. As in, physically filming title cards with a camera (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements). It's easy to see how things could get slightly misaligned. Looks like the misalignment is less than 1 degree. It's the kind of thing that stands out very noticeably in an image on a web page, when there are lots of perfectly horizontal edges to compare it against (e.g. the edge of the viewport). But I think it would be much harder to notice if projected onto a movie screen in a dark theater.
- Terr_ 2mo ago
  > (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements) Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw&t=3m20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw&t=3m20s
- toast0 2mo ago
  In older films and lower budget films into the 90s, you could expect the titles to wobble up and down and left and right from frame to frame, too.
thewisenerd 2mo ago
> I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away this is bait. berkeley mono out of the box sure doesn't do O0 separation but their "compiler"[0] lets you get a dashed one _very_ easily. [0] https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono#:~:text=Customization%20and%20Font%20Compilers https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono#:~:text=Custom...

by Terr_ 2mo ago

staticshock 2mo ago

Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.

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teraflop 2mo ago

I mean back in the day, those kinds of titles involved film editing, not video editing. As in, physically filming title cards with a camera (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements). It's easy to see how things could get slightly misaligned. Looks like the misalignment is less than 1 degree. It's the kind of thing that stands out very noticeably in an image on a web page, when there are lots of perfectly horizontal edges to compare it against (e.g. the edge of the viewport). But I think it would be much harder to notice if projected onto a movie screen in a dark theater.

Terr_ 2mo ago
> (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements) Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw&t=3m20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw&t=3m20s
toast0 2mo ago
In older films and lower budget films into the 90s, you could expect the titles to wobble up and down and left and right from frame to frame, too.

thewisenerd 2mo ago

> I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away this is bait. berkeley mono out of the box sure doesn't do O0 separation but their "compiler"[0] lets you get a dashed one _very_ easily. [0] https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono#:~:text=Customization%20and%20Font%20Compilers https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono#:~:text=Custom...