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It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
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[+] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Out of the three fonts you mentioned that you liked (Palatino Linotype, Roboto, Cantarell), only Palatino Linotype has a true visual difference between a capital i, a lowercase L, and the number one. However, the differences between a lowercase L and the number 1 we're not significant enough for me (example: hello and he11o looked similar enough to be confused as the same when seen on their own). Other than that, I really liked the font.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I didn't understand what 'S tier' meant, so I didn't want to assume you liked it, but I actually use Ubuntu as my standard font. Looking for a new one, though, just to change things up.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So, tier lists.

    There's been something of a fad in the last few years of organizing things into tier lists. As far as I can tell it comes from the gaming community, ranking player characters or items or weapons or whatever. The tiers follow the letter grading scale I think most of the English speaking world will have some understanding of; A through F without E with F being a failing grade. Apparently because Japan, an S tier for Superior is added above A.

    A fun implementation of this is TierZoo. One of those Youtubers who is also on Nebula, his whole gimmick is he does educational videos (and lifeforms in general) in a very video game discussion style. As if he's a veteran player of an MMORPG called "Outside" in which every organism is a player character. If you want to get a good grip on the tier list phenomenon he provides many examples.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cool, thanks! So, when you said Ubuntu was S tier, you meant you loved it, and that you would happily use it forever.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I've used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.

    For UI like menus and such, I'm quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.

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