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

Platforms with user generated content at Discordโ€™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 donโ€™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 Discordโ€™s old UI font used to perform bad in Vietnamese. Platforms with user generated content at Discordโ€™s scale has an inevitably high bar on choosing a UI font, let alone customize one. When aโ€ฆ
P.S. Ligature for ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ wonโ€™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 itโ€™d still need to include glyphs for ใƒ„, ใƒŽ, etc. for a ligature.

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#ChatGPT doesnโ€™t seem to quite understand what โ€œgiven transcriptโ€ means...

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ๅ‹ๆ‰‹ใซ็ต‚ใ‚ใ‚“ใชใ„ใงwww

#ChatGPT

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Yes, you got the language right, but no, thatโ€™s not what it means.

#ChatGPT

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#TIL there is a custom branding typeface for the movie Avatar: the Way of Water โ€“ Toruk โ€“ based on the logotype, designed by SwellType, a foundry known for custom typefaces of famous game titles. The font was licensed to the Naโ€™vi language learning forum.

However, it looks like the font could be kerned better, espically on the a-v pair.

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ๆญฃ่ฆ่กจ็พใฏๅˆ†ๅ‰ฒๅ‡ฆ็†ใŒใ‚„ใ‚„่ค‡้›‘ใซใชใ‚Šใ—ใใ†ใ‘ใฉใ€ใƒฌใƒผใƒ™ใƒณใ‚ทใƒฅใ‚ฟใ‚คใƒณ่ท้›ขใ‚’ใ„ใ˜ใ‚Šใพใใ‚‹ใ‚ˆใ‚Šใƒžใ‚ทใ ใชใ€‚

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https://qiita.com/mkpoli/items/7db6a7ba78cd7dc697d1

https://github.com/blueset/project-lyricova/blob/9e14f8845e7df1cee3ea162b39cc1977d442109e/packages/jukebox/src/utils/transliterate.ts#L78
https://xkcd.com/2708/

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If you ever see the โ€  dagger symbol with no unmatched footnote, it means the writer is saying the phrase while threatening you with a dagger.
Not sure if oblique Arabic typeface is a thing or not, but they did slant Arabic in the opposite way compared to the other LTR scripts.

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If hiragana and katakana are two different writing systems, then uppercase latin and lowercase latin should also be two. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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ๆจช้•ทใ„ใƒใƒƒใƒ—ไฝ“ใฟใŸใ„ใชใ‚„ใคๆ›ธใ„ใฆใฟใŸใ‘ใฉใ€ๆƒณๅƒไปฅไธŠใซๆฑšใ‹ใฃใŸใ€‚

ๆœ€่ฟ‘ใƒ›ใƒฏใ‚คใƒˆใƒœใƒผใƒ‰ใงใ“ใ‚“ใช็ดฐ้•ทใ„ใ‚„ใคใ„ใฃใฑใ„ใ‹ใ„ใฆใ€ใ“ใ‚Œใƒ•ใ‚ฉใƒณใƒˆใซใชใ‚Œใ‚‹ใ‹ใชใจๆ€ใฃใŸใ‘ใฉใ€ใ‚„ใฃใฑ็„ก็†ใ‹ใชใ...ใƒ•ใ‚ฉใƒณใƒˆใฅใใ‚Šใฏ้›ฃใ—ใ„ใ€‚

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https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

Update: Twitter has since removed the tweets and the policies a few hours after it was released.