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arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkMeet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptoswww.theverge.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]typography[email protected]graphic_design
minus-square@ChickenstalkerlinkEnglish33•2 years agoHow is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish16•2 years agoIt’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoand the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoqpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoIt’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe only meaning I could imagine as useful is to include more different scripts from the Unicode set.
How is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.
It’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.
and the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)
qpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.
It’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.
The only meaning I could imagine as useful is to include more different scripts from the Unicode set.