A free font, HyperLegible from the Braille institue. https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont for those with poor vision and to be unambiguous
@peregrine
having grown up with an #MSX homecomputer, I miss having a stroke through the zero, so I'll certainly try out this font. :)
@peregrine Hey @kaerhon, @lila_bliblu, I don’t know if you have seen this.
@emacsomancer @peregrine ...and only one font weight, apart from the regular. :(
I would totally use this on my site in a heartbeat if it had (at least) medium and (optionally) semibold variants.
@celia @emacsomancer @peregrine It's a libre font though... maybe more can happen with it still!
@cwebber @emacsomancer @peregrine I have little idea about how fonts are made. Would it be possible for someone to build a medium variant with these files, or is it far more complex than that? 😅
@celia @emacsomancer @peregrine I don't really know much myself... I hear font work is kind of a craft of its own, but there *are* people who work on libre fonts!
@celia @peregrine
I'm no expert myself either. But I know that though there are some automated ways of creating new fonts/weights/styles, usually (if you want it to look good/be legible) there's a lot of manual work required.
@celia @peregrine
@emacsomancer @celia @peregrine @cwebber Am I the only one that want's a monospaced variant for emacs?
@peregrine now this looks good
@peregrine the irony of this post not having an image description
@luna yea I didn't add it and now I can't really delete and redraft.
@peregrine @luna Oh, look, it's the post with an uncaptioned image that I saw a post about!
@peregrine + it looks great! 😍
@peregrine Don't know what to say about the straight vs rounded tail in capital and small Q, but then Q is not that often to appear.
@peregrine Oo! I wonder if this will be a good reading font for me. I use OpenDyslexic right now, but it's not what I would call 'pretty'.
@peregrine @amsomniac this is so cool! I have triple vision, very blurry focus and my left eye shakes and upon taking my glasses off I couldn’t read the comments but I could still read this!
@peregrine
pretty great idea.
I also find it amusing that this is from the braille institute, and is utterly useless to the actually blind...
Of course, I can see why those folk might be just the right people to appreciate the problem space, but it still tickles me a little
@msaunders if you read the rationale most people who come to the braille institute are simply very nearly blind and most documents could be readable if the characters were discernible.
@peregrine Hey, thanks! That's quite beautiful, too!
@peregrine Cautiously!
@peregrine
👍👍 thanks...
@peregrine Oh this font is gorgeous and helpful too. Might be the first font I will ever install to be my system wide font tbh.
@peregrine okay this rules and is super readable... Seriously considering this as my go-to font