In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems

Fonts for Complex Data | News, Notes & Observations | Hoefler & Co. https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data

Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word

Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.

Input: Fonts for Code — Info ⌘ http://input.fontbureau.com/info/

a world in which seeing someone’s aura is mainstream and we use text colors and fonts to convey emotion

@kdave@kdave.github.io I don’t see anything at all. So either my font has an empty glyph for that codepoint or i’m stripping it. Will investigate.

All fonts I tried are either ugly or the unicode glyphs are so small that they become unreadable. #fonts

@kas@enotty.dk The moon or do you have another favourite glyph? And please with codepoint, my font doesn’t handle all the fancy stuff you throw at it.

Wow. Didn’t know that @googlechrome can do that. The font is a bit strange but the emoji looks nice. http://t.co/ArZBu1rF9L

Gmail.app on iOS
I like Google and its services. Like is too little, I love them! Their mobile applications on the other hand — specifically those running under iOS — are horrible. The UIX is confusing and it does not follows Apple UIX design. Their choice of font is of poor taste and, again, does not match the rest of the OS. They lack of functionality and/or their functionality is limited by poor choices and, what is seems to be, a lack of common sense. I could describe and point out the problems on any of the … ⌘ Read more

I ♥ Icon Fonts ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1Mz

Userscript: block stupid fonts: https://www.codemadness.org/userscript-block-stupid-fonts.html

I’ve made a font… kind of… ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1AZ