• JWBananas
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    2 hours ago

    There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:

    https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

    I have never seen another terminal font that is so easy and fast to grok.

  • katy ✨
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    52 hours ago

    never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts

    • @jeffwOP
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      83 hours ago

      Damn, if only OP had listed some way around the paywall…

      • @[email protected]
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        21 hour ago

        Ikr? Fuckin op 🙄

        I didn’t even see it because clicked from the main feed. lol
        Thank you!

    • @[email protected]
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      22 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 hour ago

        If i were better at frame perfect tricks I’d be a speedrunner.
        I can only get it to work sometimes. Pages often load too fast for me… I’m washed up…

  • @TheGrandNagus
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    138 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 hours ago

      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.

        • geekwithsoul
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          66 hours ago

          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.

  • @dohpaz42
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    88 hours ago

    Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 hours ago

      I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from: