It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews
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Cool, thanks! So, when you said Ubuntu was S tier, you meant you loved it, and that you would happily use it forever.
It wasn't me that said that, I just explained the saying.
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awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone
It's got some chunky sentences and it needs a comma twice and a hyphen once; but is Lemmy the place to talk about this? For instance, it's got
- no kid-pidgen, with the lols and mids and caps.
- not a single comma splice or a run-on sentence.
- some punctuation to speak of; which truly sets it apart.
Honestly, it scores above the curve, for Lemmy or for engraving. There's surprisingly bad writing on recent monuments.
hes rite u no
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Unless it's some dumb font that makes shit harder to read, I couldn't give a shit which font is on my devices.
*as long as its a font you like you dont care. Plenty of easy to read fonts that you would absolutely hate if they were enabled by default. Luckily the people who pick default fonts like fonts enough to choose good ones.
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It wasn't me that said that, I just explained the saying.
Oh... sorry. Thanks!
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I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.
As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.
But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.
That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.
Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.
Personally, I always use Palatino in any reader view or book app, if possible. It massively reduces my brain strain; it’s a complete godsend!
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I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.
As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.
But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.
That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.
Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.
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Oh, I forgot about Cormorant! Yes, I absolutely love that font. I did my wedding invitations entirely in Cormorant and Cormorant Sans for the titles. Thanks for reminding me, and letting me know about the others! Font nerds unite!
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It's probably used on this plaque, which has some awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone:
Is the second line from the bottom in a smaller font than the rest? Apparently this person has never hand drawn any sort of banner or poster before. Classic mistake.
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Is the second line from the bottom in a smaller font than the rest? Apparently this person has never hand drawn any sort of banner or poster before. Classic mistake.
Line 3 too, and also the title.
I know but this was carved by CNC in the age of digital typography, so there's no excuse. -
I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.
As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.
But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.
That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.
Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.
I don't know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I've used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.
For UI like menus and such, I'm quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.
