Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptoshardypart@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.world – 220 points – 12 months agotheverge.com54Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsHow 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.