[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I agree wholeheartedly, it's readable, but oh so ugly and brutalistic :P

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haha big brain time :P

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're not wrong about compactness, that's a really good point!

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you ! I'm a bit overwhelmed by the positive resonance so far, so now I'm wondering what to write after that will give me the same high haha :)

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

OK, debate solved, serifs -> stroke terminals

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Why? I'm not getting the joke :D

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Now that you say that, I liked Aptos' G, but now I dislike it because it'll likely make things harder for people with poor eyesight.

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I liked arial

OK, you're the only person who has managed to make me angry hehe :)

Someone actually likes Arial ??!!

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much, this sort of feedback warms my heart, it really does !

Feel free to stick around via the Mailinglist or the Fediverse (Y), links are in #whoami !

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

What are the “display” variants of the new fonts in that article? They're called that, at least on Office 365: Aptos Display, Grandview Display, etc.

[-] jdsalaro@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

but Aptos does look like an improvement

I think so too! Did you click through the Lorem Ipsum examples? Aptos is much easier on the eyes even in dense paragraphs.

I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L

For the record, my calling those serifs has been a point of contention. To me Aptos feels like a semi-serif, not a sans-serif, although it's officially one! However, it's been suggested to me that I should do away with the serif terminology and call them simply stroke terminals!

Still mulling over this.

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Hey Folks!

We've been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.

I wrote the article, so let me know if there's something you'd like to see as well :D

Cheers !

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