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It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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merde@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For those, like me, with the memory of a goldfish:
“You’ll quickly discover you shouldn’t use the regular variant, but should instead opt for the Nokia Sans Wide variant.”
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a programmer, I’m disappointed there isn’t a monospace variant.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’ll be stuck with Fira Code forever! Hue hue hue hue
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m actually using Monaspace Neon from Microsoft of all things. Before that it was Deja Vu Sans Mono
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.
As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.
But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.
That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.
Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t hate it like you do, but I do agree with one thing: Roboto is a great font!
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Out of the three fonts you mentioned that you liked (Palatino Linotype, Roboto, Cantarell), only Palatino Linotype has a true visual difference between a capital i, a lowercase L, and the number one. However, the differences between a lowercase L and the number 1 we’re not significant enough for me (example: hello and he11o looked similar enough to be confused as the same when seen on their own). Other than that, I really liked the font.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Definitely agree. Also, Myriad Pro will always have a place in my heart.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh, I forgot about Cormorant! Yes, I absolutely love that font. I did my wedding invitations entirely in Cormorant and Cormorant Sans for the titles. Thanks for reminding me, and letting me know about the others! Font nerds unite!
UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Cantarell is indeed nice. Gnome switched to Inter recently, but I could only stomach it for a few minutes before switching back to ol’ Cant.
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I’ve used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.
For UI like menus and such, I’m quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Personally, I always use Palatino in any reader view or book app, if possible. It massively reduces my brain strain; it’s a complete godsend!
coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I prefer the SF and IBM Plex fonts for desktop.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Nokia font was a “tweak” on the original Macintosh desktop font, but kicked up for different DPI and even lower res displays. Pretty clever.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It’s probably used on this plaque, which has some awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone:
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone
It’s got some chunky sentences and it needs a comma twice and a hyphen once; but is Lemmy the place to talk about this? For instance, it’s got
- no kid-pidgen, with the lols and mids and caps.
- not a single comma splice or a run-on sentence.
- some punctuation to speak of; which truly sets it apart.
Honestly, it scores above the curve, for Lemmy or for engraving. There’s surprisingly bad writing on recent monuments.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is the second line from the bottom in a smaller font than the rest? Apparently this person has never hand drawn any sort of banner or poster before. Classic mistake.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I know but this was carved by CNC in the age of digital typography, so there’s no excuse.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Color me uncultured, I would have believed it was helvtica if you told me it was.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Am I the only person that gives no fucks about fonts?
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Unless it’s some dumb font that makes shit harder to read, I couldn’t give a shit which font is on my devices.
Auth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
*as long as its a font you like you dont care. Plenty of easy to read fonts that you would absolutely hate if they were enabled by default. Luckily the people who pick default fonts like fonts enough to choose good ones.
goreddityourself@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Just want to mention Leica font. Bahnschrift comes closest to it.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nokia done so many things for the user interfaces in general, like they’re the power behind QT as well.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
And here I was, thinking it was Hayley Duncan with A.G. Cook and SOPHIE