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I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font.

by varispeed 2mo ago

limaoscarjuliet 2mo ago
Fonts are like cheesecakes. Everyone has their own favorite and there is always room for improvement.
- dkdbejwi383 2mo ago
  And then there's the cheesecake from La Viña which stands above all others.
  - swiftcoder 2mo ago
    I've been making the Basque burnt cheesecake every year lately, it really is a delight
hoofedear 2mo ago
It'll be the same day we reach the state of having the perfect programming language
futuraperdita 2mo ago
That happened in 1957, but we can’t leave well enough alone.
EstanislaoStan 2mo ago
I submit to you that I designed •the• perfect font while making one for my microgame recently: https://stan-stani.itch.io/vagaberry https://stan-stani.itch.io/vagaberry
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mihaelm 2mo ago
We did that with Comic Sans MS
dguest 2mo ago
There are people who don't want a perfect font, they want a new one every few years. The rest of us just don't want it to be distracting.
petesergeant 2mo ago
https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
crazygringo 2mo ago
That's like reaching the state of having a perfect button-down shirt. Styles change (like collar size, slim vs roomy), and what looks good on one torso doesn't look best on another. What fits well for one company/product/book doesn't fit well for another company/product/book.
swiftcoder 2mo ago
> I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font. "Perfect font" can only happen when we stop developing new display technologies, and print dies out completely. If "perfect" is not subjective in the first place, it is definitely context-dependent. Fonts designed to work on budget smartphone displays don't necessarily look good on 6K desktop displays, and so on...
azatom 2mo ago
define perfect! - read? mostly coders - sell? mostly marketing - fraud? rn.com vs m.com mostly designers
zem 2mo ago
that reminds me of the time there was one particular combination of my laptop dpi, screen resolution, and windows 2000 font renderer that made lucida sans typewriter look perfect, but when I switched to linux the same font seemed less crisp and clean, and I ended up using bitstream vera instead. I still try lucida sans typewriter out every now and then but whatever sweet spot it hit on that machine never happened again.
eichin 2mo ago
I've just been collecting monospace fonts, and have a bit of elisp to cycle through the collection when I'm bored with the current one. (Sometimes that's enough to conclude that no, really, the original was fine and I go back to it :-)

I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font.

limaoscarjuliet 2mo ago

Fonts are like cheesecakes. Everyone has their own favorite and there is always room for improvement.

dkdbejwi383 2mo ago
And then there's the cheesecake from La Viña which stands above all others.
- swiftcoder 2mo ago
  I've been making the Basque burnt cheesecake every year lately, it really is a delight

hoofedear 2mo ago

It'll be the same day we reach the state of having the perfect programming language

futuraperdita 2mo ago

That happened in 1957, but we can’t leave well enough alone.

EstanislaoStan 2mo ago

I submit to you that I designed •the• perfect font while making one for my microgame recently: https://stan-stani.itch.io/vagaberry https://stan-stani.itch.io/vagaberry

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mihaelm 2mo ago

We did that with Comic Sans MS

dguest 2mo ago

There are people who don't want a perfect font, they want a new one every few years. The rest of us just don't want it to be distracting.

petesergeant 2mo ago

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

crazygringo 2mo ago

That's like reaching the state of having a perfect button-down shirt. Styles change (like collar size, slim vs roomy), and what looks good on one torso doesn't look best on another. What fits well for one company/product/book doesn't fit well for another company/product/book.

swiftcoder 2mo ago

> I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font. "Perfect font" can only happen when we stop developing new display technologies, and print dies out completely. If "perfect" is not subjective in the first place, it is definitely context-dependent. Fonts designed to work on budget smartphone displays don't necessarily look good on 6K desktop displays, and so on...

azatom 2mo ago

define perfect! - read? mostly coders - sell? mostly marketing - fraud? rn.com vs m.com mostly designers

zem 2mo ago

that reminds me of the time there was one particular combination of my laptop dpi, screen resolution, and windows 2000 font renderer that made lucida sans typewriter look perfect, but when I switched to linux the same font seemed less crisp and clean, and I ended up using bitstream vera instead. I still try lucida sans typewriter out every now and then but whatever sweet spot it hit on that machine never happened again.

eichin 2mo ago

I've just been collecting monospace fonts, and have a bit of elisp to cycle through the collection when I'm bored with the current one. (Sometimes that's enough to conclude that no, really, the original was fine and I go back to it :-)