| ▲ | imnotlost a day ago |
| The correct typeface for the current U.S. administration would of course be Comic Sans or perhaps Comic Serif for double-super-serious documents. |
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| ▲ | mlfreeman a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| And Wingdings for classified material! |
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| ▲ | s20n a day ago | parent [-] | | Of course, just as the highlight tool is used for redaction, wingdings is used for encryption! | | |
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| ▲ | robocat 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Comic Serif https://www.hvdfonts.com/fonts/hvd-comic-serif |
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| ▲ | Suzuran a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fraktur. |
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| ▲ | Y_Y a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > Martin Bormann issued a circular (the "normal type decree") to all public offices which declared Fraktur (and its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur I don't know if you meant to invoke pro/anti-Nazi associations with this typeface but it's unfortunate that such a fantastic lettering style carries around a poisonous historical connotation. | | |
| ▲ | Suzuran 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I am aware (of the Judenlettern decree). The reference to exactly this was intentional. (Edit to make this really obvious: The joke here is that "fraktur = nazis" became such a meme that the nazis themselves were annoyed by it and forbade its use, but this is exactly the kind of thing the present administration would either be unaware of or simply ignore and then use fraktur intentionally to pander to neo-nazis.) | | |
| ▲ | Y_Y 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for spelling it out. I had a feeling that's the point you were making, but that level of subtlety has a hard time getting through, even on highbrow hn. Hence I like to err on the side of spelling things out, especially since I'm much more often a reader than a writer. |
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| ▲ | throwaway173738 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why is that poisonous? It sounds like Fraktur was rejected by Nazi Germany which isn’t a bad thing at all. | | |
| ▲ | Y_Y a day ago | parent [-] | | Do you know anything about the Nazis, other than that they are bad? They used Fraktur extensively before 1941 and it's closely associated with Nazi imagery. This is all explained in that link I posted. I prefer to think of Lie groups, but it's rife in the Nazi propaganda of the 30s, official documents etc. |
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| ▲ | tempodox a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Fraktur would be apt as the oldest existing typeface. This administration and its supporters are so backward, it makes the 1600s look like mega-liberal ultra-modern science fiction. I’m just waiting for an executive order reintroducing cuneiform. | |
| ▲ | andybak a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | :-/ |
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| ▲ | johannes1234321 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| No, Comic sans is too woke. In seriousness: Comic Sans seems to be a good font for dyslexic people and helps them read. https://dyslexichelp.org/why-is-comic-sans-good-for-dyslexia... |
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| ▲ | sho_hn 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Dropping Calibri was done precisely because it was associated with a reason like this, so you're entirely right. |
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