AL-generated content. I get it now
I really do hate that sans serif completely fucks I l | o O 0 among others.
I should have those things on top and bottom l should have a curl. But no...
Fwiw Verdana is the currently the recommended best ADA font.
Helvetica (and it’s clones), not all sans serifs.
DIN has nice little feet on the l, as do:
- Cabin
- Cantarell
- Comfortaa
- Iwona
- Kp-Sans
- PT-Sans
- MS Trebuchet
Thank you for listening to my Typeface Talk.
"Is that an English letter in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Or : a lesson in typography, and why lower-case L ought to have a serif or curve.
Fʀᴀɴᴋʟʏ, I'ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠɪɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʟᴏᴡᴇʀᴄᴀsᴇ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ. Sᴇᴇᴍs ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ.
Minuscule letters were invented to write on paper and similar materials, because curved strokes had lower probability of tearing the material (as opposed to majuscule letters' angular features, adapted to carving in stone or similar materials). Now that we're not restricted by materials, might as well only use one case
Hmm. Still harder to read and comes across as yelling, even when the capital letters are itty-bitty...
𐑯𐑴𐑐. 𐑿 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑛𐑵 𐑢𐑦𐑞𐑬𐑑 𐑤𐑴𐑼𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑓 𐑖𐑫𐑼.
It should be illegal to have a font where Il| are not all easily distinguishable.
lI|Also, O and 0. And there's a special place in Hell for font designers that make 1 look like I
O.0
And lose jokes like Al's?
Sure all that fraud sucks, but there are tech fixes (which also have problems - SSL certificates prevent old computers from using the internet without a translating proxy)
Discord solved it by giving
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1l1L problem
I'm not ready for AI AL.
Ready or not, Al be baming
If that's an official account, that's actually amazing. Also an amazing comment.
Seems to be official. He hasn't set up the domain but a bunch of prior posts and interactions make it seem real enough
Oh Al, you little scamp!
Generated by the state of Alabama?
That would be straight indiscriminate racist ramblings.
So it's Tay?
Aluminum?
You are telling me that one of the most prolific and influential artist of our time, 5 time Grammy Award winning musician Weird Al Yankovic, would run his own social media account on a niche platform to crack jokes and shitpost on the Internet, as if celebrities are just regular people at the end of the day?
I don't know, maybe this is one of those "novelty account" I've heard so much about here.
Honestly seems on brand for him.
I ran into this exact scenario with an acquaintance on Facebook back when I engaged in such silly endeavors.
Her name was Al and I couldn't figure out for the life of me if it was Al or AI. I think I finally did ask, but damn I could NOT figure it out on my own. I suppose there must've been some way to copy paste it into word and configure to all caps, but the thought never occurred to me.
Pasting into notepad is good enough, where I and l actually look different.
and I couldn’t figure out for the life of me if it was Al or AI.
The uppercase 'i' and the lowercase 'L' each have to enter the Thunderdome, and have just one emerge alive.
I always copy just the I, l, or rarely | and search for it with any search engine. It usually clears it up
What a weird guy.
This is the best pun I've ever seen in my life.
Big Al is just not as bad is regular AI
God dammit.
I know it's a joke but there is a sliver of truth to it since there have been multiple reports of these tech companies ignoring copyrights to feed their algorithms and I'm sure his works are included.
It's easy, just need to look at the context.
Then look again.
And repeat.
By default, all chat bots should be Al-generating AI. The world would be better off.
That's how you develop new messaging protocols.
