The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 months ago

    There’s just something about fonts that are supposed to look hand-written but are too perfectly curved, every letter looking perfectly consistent, etc, that my brain rejects.

    Like when you see CGI or computerised physics in a film that’s 90% there, but there’s something about it that you can’t put your finger on that leaves a somewhat jarring “this isn’t right! Something is wrong here!” in my primative monkey brain.

    • shutz@lemmy.caEnglish
      212·
      2 months ago

      The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”

      • 299792458msEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?

        • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          That’s certainly where the term originated, but usage has expanded. I’m actually fine with it, as the original idea was about the pattern recognition we use when looking at faces, and I think there’s similar mechanisms for matching other “known” patterns we see. Probably with some sliding scale of emotional response on how well known the pattern is.

    • 299792458msEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      There is an interesting video made by a youtube channel called “Stuff Made Here” were he uses a robot hand and a program made to create fonts like they were hand written by humans and the results are impressive.

    • kelvie@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I also bought and use this in a terminal and Emacs. I really do feel like it increases legibility at a much smaller font size.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
    142·
    2 months ago

    Comic Sans really isn’t that bad, it’s just one of those things that became trendy to hate by people who are incapable of developing their own personality. Like the word “moist”

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.

    • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I… actually never hated Comic Sans and never understood why it was so hated. I mean, at least everyone knows about it.

    I always thought the Algerian font was ugly as hell (it probably has nothing to do with Algeria)

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      There’s a Reader mode in Firefox/Mull that you press before the page completely loads, i.e. before the wall appears. Works on most sites.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        If i were better at frame perfect tricks I’d be a speedrunner.
        I can only get it to work sometimes. Pages often load too fast for me… I’m washed up…