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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:14:06 JST mhoye

   Having sat down and squint-slogged my way through the "Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works" book, I am here to inform you that it is not good, often patronizing, frequently and profoundly wrong when it comes to technology, smugly ignores its own advice about basically everything, makes only the barest nod to the idea that legibility matters and doesn't admit the idea of accessibility at all.

   My advice is: just steal the sheep.

   You can read it here:

   https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/fonts.google.com/en//knowledge/stop_stealing_sheep.pdf

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:14:05 JST Eaton

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     @mhoye what the hell? “You can bet that…” can I? CAN I?

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:14:06 JST mhoye

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     There are many infuriating passages in this book, where the author chooses to fully embody so many of the worst qualities of the soi-disant "designer", but this is one high-water mark.

     "... so the outcome shows no indication of any thought toward legibility..."

     This is the exact opposite of true. No type has been studied more thoroughly, or more carefully, or at greater expense than that of road signage, because _bad road signage decisions kill people_.

     But our guy thinks it's ugly, so.