Hell, a significant number of us have strong opinions about the visual shape of (fixed-font, usually monospaced) text in our code (eg, the various indentation style wars) or prose (eg, Knuth et al's anti-river typesetting algorithms).
Re:Hatching (Heraldry)
by goodmythical on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:34PM
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Proper keming is a noble hill to die on.
Many hackers/devs that do not work directly in graphical design are surprisingly passionate about colors, fonts, angles, curves, animations...
There are many many projects that are forks of something else with a different skin on it or forked to allow the user to apply their own skin, many change the font of their terminals, hell entire linux distros are maintained entirely or almost entirely for purely aesthetic reasons.