Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

dudenas@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kittykittycatboys@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  is said in webpage: the pentagram symbol is hard to distinguish at smaller typographicl sizes

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn’t already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn’t have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A.

    Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it’s not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size

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    • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I recommend the asterism to instead be adopted as the symbol for astigmatism.

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      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like it! 😁

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  • variants@possumpat.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t typograh so small

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    • kittykittycatboys@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1 thats not how typography works

      2 im not webpage authour what u wan me to do about it moew?

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• citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my friend, please read the article. it does a great job of explaining the why. it only takes a minute to read.

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• arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My guess is because it’s unicode. But that doesn’t really matter. How often are you going to want to put the icon instead of just typing the fediverse

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    eg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Fedi”

      Already more than 50% shorter.

      In comparison, asterism symbol (and any proposal that further extends into Unicode’s emoji area) still spends three, maybe four bytes.

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I… umm… yes, I will grant that in UTF-8 and perhaps UTF-16, it encodes to fewer bytes. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point.

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• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not so widely adopted if most results don’t include it.

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