2011/02/01

Fonts!

So I actually read one of the things Blogger sends you about itself, and there's a whole bunch of fonts available now. I decided to go with Consolas and Inconsolata, since they captured a similar feel to the old look...without being Courier. People look down on Comic Sans, when Courier exists? I'm pretty sure we all bought computers precisely to escape that particular typeface.

Speaking of, how come it's so hard to find fonts with the Latin Expanded unicode subrange? I have dialogue in Czech and Romanian, people, is it too much to ask that it be in the same font as the rest of the letters? Oh, and screw you, China, for using a diacritic in pinyin's tone-marks that's damned hard to find. Even if it wasn't easier to pronounce, I'd probably like Cantonese just for the fact its only tone marks (other than the macron, which is basically omissable in Standard Cantonese) are "á" and "à". Yeah, I use Yale Romanization; aside from Jyutping's deliberately obscure phonics (Jyutping is pronounced Yutping), writing a number after every syllable looks retarded.

Also, there is no excuse—none whatsoever—in this day and age, for any font not to code Greek and Cyrillic. Again, these things ain't typewriters, you don't have to stick on new keys, and those two alphabets work just like ours.

Maybe everything wouldn't be written in Times New Roman if other fonts had half the language support it does—Hebrew and Arabic, too, come to think of it.

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