In Google's new logo, serifs a no-go

[coherent_light]

@shaddack

There are ancient examples of typewriter ASCII art. It seems to be a natural outcome of existence of a fixed-width font.Vintage Typewriter Ascii Art from 1948

We used to use IBM Selectric typewriters in the lab for that all the time after we finished assignments. That’s why it occurred to me.

Anyway:

@shaddack

When you need to explicitly write a space as a space, use the ␣ entity, aka unicode U+2423. (There is apparently also the U+2420, aka ␠, but I never saw it in actual use. In editing, · is used to visualize spaces when needed.)

But you usually just don’t use space in passwords communicated to the general public.

Nevertheless, spaces are part of fonts, and can be used in passwords. “Aka unicode U+2423” isn’t the same character as a space (U+0020), as amply demonstrated by…pretty much everywhere, really.

But since you bring it up, if one can employ a different character to reduce a point of ambiguity, then do you think they could employ a different font?

[anon8420928]

@coherent_light

But since you bring it up, if one can employ a different character that to reduce a point of ambiguity, then do you think they could employ a different font?

Hey man sorry if I wasn’t cool upthread.

Again, I think that pretty much any language can express almost any idea, and that seems to be what you’re asking here. So, I’d say yes.

[coherent_light]

No… worries? I guess I missed the uncool bit?

I’m just here as a nice break. (Otherwise I’ve a pile of CSS to shovel, and that’s pretty tedious.)

[the_borderer]

The first time I saw the new logo I thought Google had just copied Gill Sans.