@hardypart@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoMeet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptoswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down111cross-posted to: microsoft@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkMeet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptoswww.theverge.com@hardypart@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square53fedilinkcross-posted to: microsoft@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-square@Chickenstalker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish33•2 years agoHow is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.
minus-square@hardypart@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglish16•2 years agoIt’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.
minus-square@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoand the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)
minus-square@Shihali@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoqpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.
minus-square@tegs_terry@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoIt’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.
minus-square@superschurke@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe only meaning I could imagine as useful is to include more different scripts from the Unicode set.
How is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.
It’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.
and the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)
qpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.
It’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.
The only meaning I could imagine as useful is to include more different scripts from the Unicode set.