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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ugh, use Cambria or Constantia then. These fonts were designed to work well with ClearType (though by now Times New Roman plays well with it too (except, given USGov, presumably some of those machines are still running old ass software))

Whatever, enjoy your headaches, fascists

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In searching for what cambria looks like, I found an actually interesting and useful feature of google search, which is incredibly rare. When you google "$nameOfFont font" the results page is in that font.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't work for wingdings, the cowards

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Doesn't work for Papyrus, does for Comic Sans.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago
[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

give it a while they're start ai-generating the fonts instead

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Count the ~~fingers~~ serifs

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooh. I'm not like a font nerd, I couldn't recognize almost any of them. But cambria looks really nice. Why does it look so nice?

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Cambria is a serif font (which helps with readability on printed docs and just feels a bit fancier than the sans-serifs) but is one that was designed with the goal of looking good on screens (and scaling well regardless of pixel density)