@masukomi Oh! I don't know what sort of net you've cast to look for #fonts, but I've been a big fan of Blambot for well over a decade (mostly comic oriented but a solid mix of free and paid-for styles). Thought I might put it on your radar just in case. Feel free to ignore the post since you weren't looking for suggestions either, haha ✌️
Fedora (and many distributions) include most Noto font families. This is great -- full Unicode support is important. It's less great when displayed in a font chooser dialogue. The standard GTK Font Chooser is filled with dozens of (superficially) repetitive entries.
I'm wondering where one would file a bug to open discussion on possible solutions.
Fonts in CSS: Reviewing an upcoming O’Reilly book, I ran again into the idea that font family names were case-sensitive.
I recall that the spec (at some point?) said so, but in practice, user agents have always—and I think without exception—treated font names case-insensitively.
What fuels this myth (at least from a support perspective)? My hunch is that it may not be many who say so, but those are popular?
Making a #MutualAid request. My wife lost her job and all the bills have fallen on me completely. I am about $300 shy of covering them. She has applied for unemployment benefits but bills are due by the 21st.
Over the past eight days, we have published 80 new Uses. Among the featured #FontsInUse are 38 #typefaces that weren’t represented in the collection before.
The debutants include brand new releases like Choppin, Euchre (@Okay) and Retiler, the custom Curtis (all 2024), and the yet unreleased Turist. The oldest newbie is Fuchs Space Age (c.1969).
There are sans, serif, slab, script, stencil, mono, rounded, pixel, eroded #fonts and more. See them all at https://fontsinuse.com
Je vais te dire... je bosse pour de l'édition papier et numérique.
Je suis toujours étonné, alors que je suis 70% graphiste et 30% dev, d'avoir une tétrachiée de fonts installées sur mon système... de recevoir des projets pour lesquels je dois demander "J'ai pas la font machin... elle n'est pas libre... tu peux me la filer steup ?"
Y'a pas assez de fonts libres ?
Les maquettistes ne savent pas que ça existe le fonts libres ?
I have tried so many #monospaced#fonts, but I keep coming back to #Inconsolata as pleasant and readable. Latest I tried was the #Monaspace family, but the block "@" sign did them in for me. (Really interesting otherwise though!)
I haven't used Times New Roman since 2008. But, type nerd that I am, I still ended up doing a semi-deep dive into the typefaces I recommend you use instead.
#Linux#fonts need to be redone. Having a fonts.conf and local.conf file that apps ignore and the complexity of the file is silly. XFCE doesn't even seem to use it for settings, and #debian ships with a fonts.conf filled with fixes. Getting emoji's to work system-wide is super jank.
Can we not just have a simple Yaml / Toml file that everything reads and saves to for font configuration?
How do you figure out what font(s) Discord desktop is using? Mine currently displays Japanese and Chinese text as Unicode "oh noes, I can't find a glyph" rectangles. There aren't any font settings in the app other than size. 🤷
Today I learned about the Apple Font Tools 1, but the reason I'm writing this toot, and marked it with a MARCHintosh tag, is because the PDF document tutorial… has screenshots of MacOS 9 in it!
2024 Book 1: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman.
Insightful but ultimately depressing because, despite #UBI seeming particularly realistic, it feels like we're even farther away from it ever happening at scale than when this first published in 2014. ☹️
2024 Book 13: What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ashiya
Breezy, informative, and occasionally weird (Gotham likes guns?!?) primer on fonts, perfect for teens and non-designers; I actually learned a few things.