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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by gurjeet on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:11AM (#36720815)
Oh I loved this gem on the last page of the Pepsi logo PDF [1].

> 1 light year = 671 million miles per hour

x Distance = y Speed

[1]: https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_grav...

Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by _boffin_ on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:36AM (#36724595)
Oh my… the amount of BS that was written in that document was something truly enlightening. To think that BS cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars…
Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by riffraff on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:25AM (#36725347)
There's a pretty convincing theory that the BS is intentional.

This document has been circulating for many years and keep being reshared and the Pepsi brand is reinforced everytime.

Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by hotpotamus on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:49AM (#36725707)
I think this comment helps me to finally understand the concept of memetic evolution - you are seeing intelligent design, but it's possible that this document just organically was chosen through its version of "natural selection" to be one that has propagated.
Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by mistercheph on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:40AM (#36725574)
What do you think sells pepsi cans? Why are there only two brands in the United States that have meaningful market share in the dark syrup + water industry? Do you think it's because of something done by engineers in a basement with papers stacked up to the ceiling, or do you think it is possible that these two companies are global experts in capturing the attention and imagination of billions of people and have done so better than anyone else in human history using the shape of a can, a logo, and a font. If you don't buy the rationale provided in that document, fine, but rationality doesn't sell trillions of cans of syrup water, Vitruvian Man, Golden Ratio, Feng Shui, earth Geodynamo 'woowoo' does.
Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by cratermoon on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:12PM (#36731198)

    x = 671 million miles per hour