| ▲ | moomoo11 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
No. I don’t want the gov wasting money making a fucking font. There’s a few dozen off the shelf fonts that would work for 99.99% of people. For those who it doesn’t work, deal with it. It’s a font. Or fallback to system font. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | amluto 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Neither Calibri nor Times New Roman are free to use, although they are free in certain contexts for Windows users. The US Government is paying plenty for them. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | echelon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
You know the fonts on our roads are standardized? And a lot of other official documents? Designing a font that will be public domain forever costs next to nothing. It's a one-time cost that pays dividends into the future and that will probably outlive us. The government would create something standard and accessible, and anyone could use it. No encumbered licensing. I think companies refreshing design systems is a waste of money, but the government doing it is actually incredibly prudent. | |||||||||||||||||
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