It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews

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• Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nokia done so many things for the user interfaces in general, like they’re the power behind QT as well.

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  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And here I was, thinking it was Hayley Duncan with A.G. Cook and SOPHIE

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also mentioned Ubuntu.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t hate it like you do, but I do agree with one thing: Roboto is a great font!

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely agree. Also, Myriad Pro will always have a place in my heart.

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  • UnityDevice@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I prefer the SF and IBM Plex fonts for desktop.

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• MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As a programmer, I’m disappointed there isn’t a monospace variant.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’ll be stuck with Fira Code forever! Hue hue hue hue

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    • MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m actually using Monaspace Neon from Microsoft of all things. Before that it was Deja Vu Sans Mono

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• merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  article has links to download the font ☞ en.maisfontes.com/…/nokia-sans-font-family-downlo…

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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• frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Am I the only person that gives no fucks about fonts?

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You do give a shit about fonts, you just don’t give a shit about discussing font choices.

    I assume that if the global choice was something like Papyrus, or Windings, you’d care.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s probably used on this plaque, which has some awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone:

  Lets Roll

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      hes rite u no

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• goreddityourself@lemmy.wtf ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just want to mention Leica font. Bahnschrift comes closest to it.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Color me uncultured, I would have believed it was helvtica if you told me it was.

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