Al-generated content. You read that wrong.

AL-generated content. I get it now

I really do hate that sans serif completely fucks I l | o O 0 among others.

I should have those things on top and bottom l should have a curl. But no…

Fwiw Verdana is the currently the recommended best ADA font.

Helvetica (and it’s clones), not all sans serifs.

DIN has nice little feet on the l, as do:

Cabin
Cantarell
Comfortaa
Iwona
Kp-Sans
PT-Sans
MS Trebuchet

Thank you for listening to my Typeface Talk.

“Is that an English letter in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

Or : a lesson in typography, and why lower-case L ought to have a serif or curve.

Fʀᴀɴᴋʟʏ, I’ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠɪɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʟᴏᴡᴇʀᴄᴀsᴇ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ. Sᴇᴇᴍs ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ’s ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ.

I read this in the voice of Death from Discworld. I didn’t even realize I had an internal voice actor assigned to him.

After reading this comment, I too read the comment it was responding to in the voice of Discworld’s Death. Something both warm and somewhat metallic.

Minuscule letters were invented to write on paper and similar materials, because curved strokes had lower probability of tearing the material (as opposed to majuscule letters’ angular features, adapted to carving in stone or similar materials). Now that we’re not restricted by materials, might as well only use one case

lower probability of tearing the material

Is that well documented? I thought it was just because it makes writing more fluid, and people tend to evolve towards fluid movements when they repeat the same ones all the time as it requires less energy. Ex: high-level musicians or sport practicionners.

I’ve heard that that’s the reason alphabets from languages in the South East Asia (like Thai or Khmer) is all about circles as to not tear the writing material back in the day - leaves.

I’m a big fan of Chinese seal script used for stone engravings just like the look

Make Writing (adapted for) Stone Again

They’re also way faster to read though.

Come to think of it, is there actually much of any point to capital vs lowercase letters? You know what the first word of a sentence is anyway because of the period before, and names can be identified by context. Why do we even have capitalization in the first place?

It’s a plot by Big Typesetting to sell more letters. Wake up sheeple!

As I mentioned in another comment, the original reason we have majuscule and minuscule letters is the difference in materials they were written on. Having them persist in the typesetting is in fact more of a historical artifact

We need capitals, as otherwise shouting online would have to move to bold

Hmm. Still harder to read and comes across as yelling, even when the capital letters are itty-bitty…

𐑯𐑴𐑐. 𐑿 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑛𐑵 𐑢𐑦𐑞𐑬𐑑 𐑤𐑴𐑼𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑓 𐑖𐑫𐑼.

It should be illegal to have a font where Il| are not all easily distinguishable.

lI|

Also, O and 0. And there’s a special place in Hell for font designers that make 1 look like I

but that’s literally most default fonts

STRAlGHT T0 JAlL Y0U SAY?

And lose jokes like Al’s?

Sure all that fraud sucks, but there are tech fixes (which also have problems - SSL certificates prevent old computers from using the internet without a translating proxy)

Ah yes but that font looks kinda ugly tbh :(

Hard disagree all my homies fw consolas

Give me Cascadia Code or give me death!

Careful, the programmers may rise up!

 IT IS A PERFECTLY CROMULENT FONT THAT IS EASILY READ BY ALL REAL HUMANS.

Discord solved it by giving l the same tail that t has, I wish more sans-serif fonts did that

Then you have the 1l 1L problem

I’m not ready for AI AL.

Ready or not, Al be baming

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