Plltxe.
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Tweets, toots, and jibber-jabbers of Eana Hufwe.
Mostly in variants of en, ja, zh and 08n.

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かな印字のない JIS 配列キーボードなんてあるんだ、はじめて知った。 #TIL

https://www.amazon.com/Scissor-Switch-TypeKeys-Keyboard-Japanese-BFKB113PBK/dp/B00NBCFDTW

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#TIL, .NET used Space Grotesk and Open Sans as their branding typeface instead of Microsoft’s Segoe UI as found in the nav bar.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

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Mastodon has the feature where you can choose not to follow someone’s boost (reposts), and choose what language of posts to show on your timeline. This allows the user not to worry too much when reposting a lot of posting in multiple languages.

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Isn’t it that anyone can hack stuff and claim to be Anonymous, because they are...

...anonymous?

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Why is YouTube Music using MS ゴシック for their recap posters on my Android phone? Are they generating these images on a server running Windows?!

Also, “2022年 年” seriously? lol

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The recent discussions on gg sans sorta reminds me of how Discord’s old UI font used to perform bad in Vietnamese.

Platforms with user generated content at Discord’s scale has an inevitably high bar on choosing a UI font, let alone customize one.

When a platform is at that scale, you should expect users to write in all sort of languages, and do a good job at rendering them. If you are choosing a UI font, let it render ALL glyphs of a script (except CJK Han), or just don’t bother that script at all, and let the OS handle it. Otherwise, your users would had a bad time reading their messages with your custom fonts.

Some examples:
1. Old Discord UI font (Whitney) fallbacks when rendering Vietnamese
2. New Discord UI font (gg sans) fallbacks when rendering Japanese (from geo_vitya)

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The recent discussions on gg sans sorta reminds me of how Discord’s old UI font used to perform bad in Vietnamese. Platforms with user generated content at Discord’s scale has an inevitably high bar on choosing a UI font, let alone customize one. When a…
P.S. Ligature for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ won’t help gg sans.

OpenType ligatures work on Glyphs Substitution (GSUB) table. The font needs to have all the glyphs in the sequence in order to replace it with something else. So it’d still need to include glyphs for ツ, ノ, etc. for a ligature.

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