Re:The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
by Sharlin on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:18AM
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To be fair, traditionally 95% of digital content has zero amount of typographical finesse and simply uses whatever is available in the local standard keyboard layout. Even the use of em and n dashes is a big deal.
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The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely.
To show I have no ill will toward outlandish Britishisms, this one applied in Parliament until relatively recently...
"To increase their appearance during debates and to be seen more easily, a Member wishing to raise a point of order during a division was, until 1998, required to speak with his hat on. Collapsible top hats were kept for the purpose."
https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-inf...
Yeah, I don't doubt you, just meant that web copy is usually so typographically impoverished compared to print that it's not in itself much of evidence.
True, but not in the case of gov.uk typography, which has had a huge amount of thought put into it. e.g. https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/12/making-the-gov-uk... https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-sty...