DarthGraben

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seconding this recommendation! I caught parts of it on the radio last weekend and the week before. It was way more fascinating than I expected…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh shit! I see it now :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What counts as print these days though? When I first started working, we'd get literal boxes shipped to us with 1,000+ page documents inside. Now it's a cloud link that opens with a PDF reader. Does that still count as print? Genuinely curious, because I see conflicting advice depending on if its print or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is super helpful! Fun fact - Erewhon is also a small chain of very high end markets in Los Angeles. Now I'm going to have to research what this word means and who came up with it first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the recs. I thought one of the fonts in the link was called Potato Sans, so now that one is my new personal favorite forever, even if it's actually called Pontano Sans. :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dyslexie was one of the first fonts I looked at specifically for accessibility purposes. Unfortunately, despite it's utility, it looks too much like a 'fun' font for our documents. Our reports are publicly published for the legal/administrative record, and need to reflect that level of professionalism. :/

Someone else suggested a font that's helpful for vision impaired people that I will take forward in this process, so maybe I can get a different accessible font through. Really appreciating the thoughtfulness for people with various reading challenges!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Cool cool cool. Really valuable feedback. Thanks for dropping by.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the font rec. I despise Word but have colleagues who would be unable to function in something like LaTeX. Oh well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I didn't know that! It's going in the pile for further consideration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Out of curiosity, what font were you using before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

gotcha. Serif fonts seem more readable to me in every setting, but they also look stuffy. ¯\(ツ)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Definitely need to avoid giant fixed-width fonts. My reports often run close to 100 pgs with Times New Roman, and using a typewriter font would blow them up even more. I'll look into the open source suggestions, thanks!

 

I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about typography/fonts.

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