So disappointed that this document, as much as it obsesses over obscure physical quantities no one cares about, makes no mention of THE FUCK.

1 fuck is equal to the amount of concern you have about something below which you cannot achieve without having no concern at all, as which giving "zero fucks" is defined. "Absolute zero fucks" would be the formal terminology.

For preliminary purposes, we can assume 1 fuck = 1 shit = 1 damn, but must account for the possible existence of a big-point-vs-printers-point style situation. Also they could be drastically different, like if 1 shit given about global warming would be equivalent to 299_792_458 fucks or something like that.

I have very little knowledge about the *real* machinations behind the standardization of measures (a tinfoil conspiracy kook would call it an Agenda 21, or 21 Agendas One, but I'm not going there), I want this to be discussed.

There's an irony: the _Times_ (of London) commissioned it in 1932 to improve the readability of its newspaper, which previously used a Didone/Modern style typeface.

I like Times New Roman and I find Calibri, a rounded-corner sans serif, to be an absolute abomination of milquetoast typography.

Old Timey Code is the coding friendly font.

I'm aiming for both.

Are you seeing the combining breve to the right of the Y/y (instead of atop it) when trying to use them?

Your suggestions are welcome, thank you!

I thought its features would make it the basis of a good coding font, too. Old Timey Mono is much closer to the original while Old Timey Code makes it an even better typeface for writing source code.

It was the coding font used in the Turbo Pascal 3.0 user manual. I've not seen it elsewhere except old patents' cover pages.

Enjoy and if you have any comments or questions, comment or enquire away.

https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font

https://webonastick.com/fonts/old-timey-mono/

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Someone else mentioned consensus which is orthogonal. Git does not have that part.

I can only speculate on this but in Perl, for fake multimensional arrays à la `$foo{$x,$y,$z}`[^1], Perl uses ASCII character 28 (U+001C INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR) as its default subscript separator. Perl borrowed this feature from AWK, which uses the same character by default for the same purpose.

Based on Perl, I initally used that same character for that same purpose in a project or two. I cannot speculate on why Aho, Weinberger, and/or Kernighan chose that character. (On or before 1977.)

[^1]: Not to be confused with nested array (or hash) references in Perl, a truer form of multimensional arrays: `$foo->[$x]->{$y}->[$z]`

Go to https://www.microsoft.com/design

Scroll to the bottom.

Look for the set of social media links; the first one is an “M”.

There's also that "rule of threes" which almost every client likes.

Also, most of the new fonts are derivative. Amazon Ember looks like a bland mashup of Calibri and ITC Officina, like the latter of which a lot of other fonts look, and the former of which is bland as heck. Poppins looks like ITC Avant Garde Gothic. TheSansMono kind of looks like Consolas. There are a truckload of direct modifications of DejaVu Sans Mono/Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Bitstream eVera Sans is a fugly bizarro version of Verdana/Tahoma.