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never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts
Paywalled
There’s a Reader mode in Firefox/Mull that you press before the page completely loads, i.e. before the wall appears. Works on most sites.
Damn, if only OP had listed some way around the paywall…
Damn, gradient and emboss? Put on your shades people.
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There’s just something about fonts that are supposed to look hand-written but are too perfectly curved, every letter looking perfectly consistent, etc, that my brain rejects.
Like when you see CGI or CGI physics in a film that’s 90% there, but there’s something about it that you can’t put your finger on that leaves a somewhat jarring “this isn’t right! Something is wrong here!” in my primative monkey brain.
There is an interesting video made by a youtube channel called “Stuff Made Here” were he uses a robot hand and a program made to create fonts like they were hand written by humans and the results are impressive.
The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”
I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?
That’s certainly where the term originated, but usage has expanded. I’m actually fine with it, as the original idea was about the pattern recognition we use when looking at faces, and I think there’s similar mechanisms for matching other “known” patterns we see. Probably with some sliding scale of emotional response on how well known the pattern is.
Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.
I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:
It’s been a long time since I thought about Tenchi Muyo.
Ah man I really liked the OVAs. Wish there were more. Didn’t care for the characterization in the TV series.
Obligatory:
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010
