Mine is mapping. I am a big OpenStreetMap contributor and I have mapped many towns near me that were previously completely unmapped.

  • Hemingways_ShotgunEnglish
    13•15 hours ago

    I have a weird obsession with fonts. I love a good, well designed font. How it looks on the screen, how it looks in print. Nothing too gaudy or showy, but a really good League Spartan or Lato Light. (Not a fan of serifs)

    Other than that, normal stuff; 3D modelling, writing, etc…

    My other interest that might fall “outside the norm” is that in University, if I had continued beyond my bachelors my primary focus would have been studying the Bronze Age Collapse, and that topic still fascinates me to this day.

    Edit: Oh…and spreadsheets. There’s no problem in the world that can’t be fixed with a well designed spreadsheet. All problems come down to data sorting.

    • @[email protected]
      4•10 hours ago

      Oh my God I LOVE FONTS

      Spartan is a bit wide for me (see that w?) but Lato with a good colorscheme is always sexy

      Another thing: if you’re familiar with fonts you can have a weird pseudo-Sherlock funtime guessing how something was made.

      points This book is using Georgia instead of Times New Roman. See how the 9 is low? But the page numbers are Times New Roman because the 9 isn’t low. Was paging in the author’s control?

      and

      font with the light blue shading thing. This club recruitment poster was made in Microsoft Word.

      About serif disdain… what about LaTeX’s serif? :}

      • @LovableSidekickEnglish
        1•5 hours ago

        Brick?

        Anyway, maybe you have some insight - any idea why so many web designers prefer Light or Hairline now? Or at any rate the thinnest possible fonts? Did someone with credibility announce that thin fonts are actually easier to read, or is it just a style trend?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•9 hours ago

      I have almost no opinions on specific fonts. Except… I absolutely despise the $ and ¢ symbols in Apple’s San Francisco font. Since it’s the default font I have to look at it a lot.

    • @EmeraldOP
      4•13 hours ago

      Ayy fellow font enjoyer! I have like 50 GB of fonts, I’m a bit crazy. Honestly, Noto Sans is the greatest font out there. Looks good everywhere

      • Hemingways_ShotgunEnglish
        3•13 hours ago

        I like Noto Sans. But as a Linux user it often irks me too, since every…single…language…is included in most distributions; so half of my time finding a nice font that I just installed consists of scrolling past a bajillion Noto variants.