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Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by yay_cloud2 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:56AM (#17940261)
I love how a font can inspire this kind of deep, primal anger. Like smelling salts for the feels.
Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by setquk on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:20AM (#17940311)
Yes. My other half hasn’t got over the 30 minute rant and regular random explosions about it to this day when we hired a plumber and his van had comic sans and clipart from Microsoft office on the side. This was 15 years ago.
Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by aasasd on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:55AM (#17940397)
While we're on the pedantry topic, I'd like to put in a word for proper sentence structures.
Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday September 08, 2018 @07:24AM (#17940445)
You don’t realise it until you see something truly bad.

I remember there was an algorithms book that was set in this typeface that was literally difficult to read. It made it harder to process the content.

The way things look is important.

Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by alanh on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:52PM (#17941903)
> this typeface

Which?

Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by Exuma on Saturday September 08, 2018 @04:48PM (#17942703)
My guess is he replied to the wrong comment, and meant comic sans
Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:45PM (#17942947)
Perhaps I should have said “some typeface”. I can’t remember the name of the book or the font.

I remember the book was laid out using TeX though.