Hey Folks!
We’ve been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.
I wrote the article, so let me know if there’s something you’d like to see as well :D
Cheers !
I don’t mind Calibri, but Aptos does look like an improvement. I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L… it has always annoyed me how that and uppercase I look exactly the same in many fonts. It’s one of the reasons why I’m partial to fonts with serifs.
OK, debate solved,
serifs->stroke terminalsbut Aptos does look like an improvement
I think so too! Did you click through the Lorem Ipsum examples? Aptos is much easier on the eyes even in dense paragraphs.
I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L
For the record, my calling those serifs has been a point of contention. To me Aptos feels like a semi-serif, not a sans-serif, although it’s officially one! However, it’s been suggested to me that I should do away with the serif terminology and call them simply stroke terminals!
Still mulling over this.
Oh my god yes! future generations will be shocked that it took us that long to solve that particular problem.
Still adapting to Calibri … I liked arial because it was usually near the top of the font list so it was easy to find, lol
Maybe that’s why the new one got renamed to Aptos, ha.
Why? I’m not getting the joke :D
It will be near the top of the list of fonts since it begins with “A”. I think that was what they were getting at.
Thank you for getting the joke :-)
Haha big brain time :P
I liked arial
OK, you’re the only person who has managed to make me angry hehe :)
Someone actually likes Arial ??!!
Aside from using it to make jokes? It’s not bad, a legible sans-serif that renders well on low resolution screens. A lot of discussions about “clean” fonts seem to squabble over minutiae while the important part of being readable seems forgotten.
I agree wholeheartedly, it’s readable, but oh so ugly and brutalistic :P
Heyyyyy a fellow Arial fan. The Aptos font feels like the Mac version of Arial.
Seaford* looking good
That was a fantastic article! There’s so much that I would never have noticed.
Thank you so much, this sort of feedback warms my heart, it really does !
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whoami!
On that paragraph about prominence, what I do notice is that the letters are way more closed, with less noticeable gaps, for example with a letter ‘c’. To those with weaker eyesight, the letters may be seen as an ‘o’. But a great article and I liked the comparisons.
Now that you say that, I liked Aptos’
G, but now I dislike it because it’ll likely make things harder for people with poor eyesight.
Grandview seemed to do the best in clearly identifying the character 0. Is it an O, 0, I, l, or 1? Even without an example of O clearly visible in the sample text, the shape of 0 was very clear and seems like it should stand apart. Not the only reason to select a font, but it might be important to some.
Wow I always new I hated Calibri but looking at it up close REALLY made me hate it. I don’t know what it is about that font but I just can’t stand it.
That was a fantastic article! There’s so much that I would never have noticed.
