• Jerb322@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Drives me nuts that the capital “I” looks the same as lower case “L”. What happened to the top and bottom line on the “I”?

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      5 days ago

      But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.

      Explanation

      The reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn’t want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.

      This is the category called Sans-Serif

      Explanation

      The name means ‘without serifs’, which are ‘extra’ identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1

      Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist

      such as:

      From Apple:

      • New York

      From Google:

      • Roboto
      • Merriweather
      • Lora

      From Microsoft:

      • Georgia
      • Aptos Serif
      • Cambria

      Open source:

      • EB Garamond
      • Instrument Serif
      • Libre Baskerville
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      5 days ago

      Alright please forgive me for this one transgression of using Gemini, but this is one statistical likelihood that feels creepy

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          I got to learn why the font style has those flaws, a few fonts that do and don’t have the same flaws and, ultimately, I got to use the information I learned to submit an informational comment beside the one we’re under