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Weirdly, it's only capitals, no numbers or punctuation. Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! Also it's more like an average of the world's finger-pain

Weirdly, it's only capitals, no numbers or punctuation. Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! Also it's more like an average of the world's finger-painting styles, since you have to draw the letters super big and on a touchscreen. Still, everyone does have their own style, and there are some interesting stats on the "left" of that nearly un-navigable website, letter averages by country or profession and such.

wahnfrieden 12y ago
Limited typefaces can still be useful for logos or titles/headers. For instance, it's very common for stylized Japanese typefaces to only support a small fraction of common characters.
- devindotcom 12y ago
  Certainly true. In this case it seems like since it's meant to be an "everyman" font it would be more useful to have it be in lowercase too, and include numerals etc. I'm guessing they decided writing 26 letters was about the limit of the average attention span online - having to do it twice, along with 0-9 and a basket full of symbols probably would result in lots of incomplete forms.
snogglethorpe 12y ago
Yeah, I tried it out, and while it's a fun little thing, drawing with one's finger is very different than drawing with a pen (even a bic! :), and the results are inherently sort of clumsy. Something based on real handwriting (as is often done for individuals) would be vastly more interesting. Also of course, the idea that this is anywhere near "universal" is pretty silly...
yellowapple 12y ago
> Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO DOESN'T LOVE ALLCAPS? I DON'T NEED NUMBERS, EITHER. X EQUALS FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY NINE POINT ONE FIVE FIVE SIX THREE. SEE? IT'S LIKE I'M WRITING IN COBOL. THIS IS FUN.
- zhemao 12y ago
  Where did you get those question marks and periods from?
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wahnfrieden 12y ago

Limited typefaces can still be useful for logos or titles/headers. For instance, it's very common for stylized Japanese typefaces to only support a small fraction of common characters.

devindotcom 12y ago
Certainly true. In this case it seems like since it's meant to be an "everyman" font it would be more useful to have it be in lowercase too, and include numerals etc. I'm guessing they decided writing 26 letters was about the limit of the average attention span online - having to do it twice, along with 0-9 and a basket full of symbols probably would result in lots of incomplete forms.

snogglethorpe 12y ago

Yeah, I tried it out, and while it's a fun little thing, drawing with one's finger is very different than drawing with a pen (even a bic! :), and the results are inherently sort of clumsy. Something based on real handwriting (as is often done for individuals) would be vastly more interesting. Also of course, the idea that this is anywhere near "universal" is pretty silly...

yellowapple 12y ago

> Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO DOESN'T LOVE ALLCAPS? I DON'T NEED NUMBERS, EITHER. X EQUALS FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY NINE POINT ONE FIVE FIVE SIX THREE. SEE? IT'S LIKE I'M WRITING IN COBOL. THIS IS FUN.

zhemao 12y ago
Where did you get those question marks and periods from?
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