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Happy April Fool's!
- Windows 8 == Best OS
- Apple is fairly priced
- PHP > C++
- Java === JavaScript
- facebook > devrant
- Github useless, use .zip
- Comic Sans best terminal font
- Nobody needs a web developer because Wordpress much better
- Linux is for virgins22 -
Customer: how will this heading look in bold?
Me: Hold a sec, I will show you *opens developer tools in chrome and increments font-weight*
Customer: NO NO NO, undo this. I don't want you to mess up my website.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯6 -
Boss: "it's not the same font"
Me: "yes, it is"
Boss: "don't argue with me. It's a different font"
Me: "ok it's a different font" (it's not)
Boss: "change it please"
15 minutes later and I've done nothing at all to it. Boss comes back.
Boss: "see? I knew it was a different font. This looks perfect now. Why were you lying to me before? I don't like you arguing with me"12 -
My boss intentionally changed my IDE font color to black since im using dark theme. I was literally confused a solid 30 minutes.
FFFFUUUUUCK16 -
I just overheard a conversation in my uni and I'm horrified.
They want to use Comic Sans as the main font in the app they're going to develop
I hope I just imagined this3 -
Being a web developer somedays makes me feel like:
Wow! Look at that super awesome thing these guys coded, and I'm just sitting here aligning divs and changing font colors.12 -
#tower-of-pisa {
font-style: italic
}
Entire building falls down
Fuck, forgot a semicolon. I hate CSS.4 -
Art director said: "Please make everything smaller?"
Developer: "Everything?"
Art Director: "Yes everything. Font size, panel height, panel width, input height and width, photos, headers, paragraphs, everything"
Developer: "ctrl + '-' will that work?"10 -
Teacher: *writes <!doctype html> in his web page*
Teacher: Of course we're going to use HTML 5 for our application!
Also teacher: *continues to demonstrate <center> and <font> tags*
Ffs...13 -
*Working on app for client*
After review - “Can you make that font bigger?”
*Makes font larger*
After review a week later - “Can you make that font smaller?”
*Puts font back to original size*
Another review later on - “Can you make that font bigger?”
*Keeps font at same size and changes nothing*
Next review - “That new font size is perfect!”2 -
Whenever someone at our university forgets to lock his laptop, we change his default font in Eclipse to Comic sans 😂 Just to Show him why security is important.10
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6 hours, with non developers, to decide on the font size of a website. Had to listen to 6 hours of pseudo psychological bullshit about how a 16pt thin Helvetica or something made people "feel".
And I'm a backend dev... I haven't written a line of css in two years... I only interact with the website through functional tests.9 -
Spent more than an hour on client's computer trying to figure out why it was rendering a font in bold, while every other device I tried (even with same browser/OS/screen DPI) rendered it in normal weight. Google Fonts were loading fine. After banging my head into TeamViewer window for the Nth time, I found the problem. The font was installed on client's computer locally, so it was overriding remotely loaded Google Fonts. What's the problem then? The local version only had bold version.
Deleting the local font fixed it.
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@dfox Can we have the option to include code blocks in rants and comments? So that they're formatted as monospace text? I mean we can get around it with pictures, but it would be a nice option to include code with an appropriate font. =)12
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Never thought an Icon Font library would make a million bucks in Kickstarter. Check out Font Awesome's campaign if you're a fan. They've got some sweet backer rewards.
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Argh!
Me: "Are these Os or 0s? In this shit font they look totally the same!"
Me tries to gess if they look more like circles or eggs.
Me remembers that there are no Os in hex numbers.
Me: "Stupid me! Better go to bed now..."2 -
For the first time in weeks I have energy enough to work on rewriting the security/privacy blog again! Post sort order will be fixed :)
Font ideas, anyone? And other feature ideas are welcome as well ;)31 -
TIL if a free fonts website ever asks you to register to download, you can just search GitHub for that file/font name, somebody most likely committed it before.17
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Just discovered that we are loading 200k for a custom font on one of our platforms...
200k FOR A FUCKING FONT?!? FOR REAL??? ITS NOT EVEN FUCKING DIFFERENT ON SIGHT!
So I sarcastically asked why the fuck are we using it and my coworker said its because the designer designed (duh) the layout this way...
Look... Usually I'm a quiet person and I don't rant in real life but this time I could not restrain myself.15 -
!rant
I just started to use Fira Code as my main font because another awesome user recommended it and I must say, this shit is beautiful. This is what I love about this community. I learn more and get to know more cool shit because of what users say in here than the 5 years I spent at uni. You ninjas rock!7 -
@dfox
!rant, it's the Feature request
Possibility to post `a code snippet with monospaced font` would be usefull.
Or even
```
def multiline_code():
from 2 to Inf:
"Lines of code"
```
Sth like in markdown.9 -
Client: "Something is missing, like a type of BOOM or some fancy stuff, but I can't pinpoint what exactly. Do you know what I mean?"
Me: "Sure, give me one sec."
Changes font of a single word on a Web page to italic.
Client: "Perfect!"
My face: Priceless and trying not to laugh out loud.3 -
Well. Here is the story.
Started making a React app a week ago with a friend; his job was styling some jsx i "already" wrote. hmmmm. and i just pulled his last commit.
file [index.scss]
3 lines:
body {
font-size: 16px;
}
😐😐😐😐😐
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I caught my client SLASH boss SLASH project man SLASH designer SLASH "I want to make facebook but better" designing with microsoft word
That explain the calibri font in their logo9 -
Here's what I saw today
To add space between two rows of images.
<div>
//A row of images
</div>
<h1 style="color:white">a</h1>
<div>
//A row of images
</div>11 -
You may know about my dumb CTO, if not, read here: https://devrant.io/rants/854361/...
Anyway, the dumbass emailed me this weekend asking “what is big data?”
So I replied: “...it’s when you use a large font in your code...”
He thanked me. I bet he will be at some presentation somewhere and will reference using large fonts in an IDE!!!10 -
its 2016, and they still believe that office skillz are enough for CS101..
boy u have to allocate memory in runtime without leaks by end of semester, not just make a text bold with a fancy font..2 -
When the coffee you had in the morning kicks in all at once.
Now my heartbeat is faster than my keystrokes4 -
The new figma plugins are actually insane lol, some examples:
- font scale, always struggled with having to apply the formula myself or finding the right one so it scales nicely
- image tracer, that plugin replaces adobe illustrator for me, since I only used it to convert pixels to vector images
- removebg, 99% of what I pulled photoshop up for
still have to test them some more, but so far it literally replaces all that adobe crap for me.
https://figma.com/c/plugin/...
https://figma.com/c/plugin/...
https://figma.com/c/plugin/...
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I was just browsing for freelancing jobs, found a NodeJs one that didn't sound like crap.
> Plz download attached project description
Ok *download and open PDF*
>Comic sans all over the place with blue and purple font color
NOPE!
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When the pm learns how F12 and use Google console to change HTML style, for example the color of the font.
He proclaims produly to everyone, I can code like you guys now.2 -
Got called up today by my org's cyber security team.
Reason: Installed a font called "Hack" (https://github.com/source-foundry/...)
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️1 -
Needed devRant font awesome icon for my personal website. Couldn't find. Thought of creating a new issue when I found this..
Request every dev to thumbs up this issue at https://github.com/FortAwesome/...
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Handwritting fonts bring back warm memories of that one time in school where they said we should write some delphi code with a pen. Good times
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A classmate of mine had the task to align some content on a page to the center using CSS (using margins)
That classmate has no fucking clue because she pays no attention.
font:10px;
was the only thing she wrote into the text file that was projected onto the whiteboard.
The teachers asked: "What does font stand for?"
Her reply: "Uuuuuuh... Position?"
Kill. Me.8 -
Client wants to use a specific font.
Client can't find the font.
Google can't find the font.
We Are Doomed1 -
Just give me a link to the web font man. Oh, there isn't one? You used a font that we can't legally use? Do you understand how that works? I don't want your 300MB photoshop document. I don't want to comb through your ridiculous stack of insane layers and artboards and deal with the images you didn't bundle into the project or try and make sense out of your arbitrary spacing and random font sizes. You're not an artist, you're just a crappy visual designer handing off an unthoughtful glorified wire-frame - and now I have to sort out all the things that you were paid to do. It's really easy. 1. Pick a color, 2. Pick 2 fonts that are legal and available to use on the web, 3. build a few patterns for font sizes and weights - write them down. 4. Pick your images. Make them double the size you expect them to be on the site + put them in a folder, 5. add readme and list the font patterns and the link to the webfont, 6. quickly scribble the wire-frame out, 7. take a photo of it, 8. put it all in a folder and send it to me.4
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Do not change your '/usr' permissions.
Yours sincerely,
A linux user who's been fucked up(twice) doing this because he wanted to install a fucking font.4 -
Devs: "Accessibility? Not a high priority for now"
Also Devs (in tech conferences): "I can't read, can you please increase the font size?"
"Also, dark mode everywhere please"4 -
Just two wishes!
#1 : Way to download images rather than having to screenshot
#2 : Code with syntax hilighting
#3 : I know I'm of by one, but a coding font maybe?5 -
So I just receieved a rude email from my client as candidates cannot register on his system. He is adamant that the system I built doesn't work........until he found out that candidates are silly and not reading notifications written in h1 with a font size of 33px that states "Please check your email to activate your account".......
FUCK SAKE READ PEOPLE.... READ!2 -
Just wanted to deaign a typography for each popular programming language. Ideally the font matches the language itself. Initial ideas are: a playful candy font for JavaScript cuz it's so easy and fun to use, n a gothic C++ cuz it's like this epic, powerful (maybe sometimes terrifying) language.
Wouldn't it be cool if there's a set of these? Any professional designers here (cuz I'm just a hobbyist)? Or any thoughts? What should your favorite language look like?
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Just backed the Kickstarter for FontAwesome 5. They've asked for 30k and are on 200k+ already. I think I need to get into making things that look nice.
Share the love: https://kickstarter.com/projects/...3 -
Software engineering course.
Professor wants to show us some Java code.
*Opens eclipse*
*Font super small*
Student: can you please increase the font size?
Professor: sure.
*Can't find the correct setting to do that*
Professor: does anyone know how to increase font size?
Some student at the back: copy the code to notepad++.
:/
Cool professor though..9 -
Dear font creating/licensing world,
fuck you and your stupid license models from the dark ages.
If I use your font to print a few million newspapers is ok and only about 50 bucks but if I want to include it on my website is going to cost me my first born son for every 50k requests?
No making an image and including is not fucking in the mobile first era...
Now I have to use fonts from Google because they are least fucking understand the needs of our times (in terms of font licensing)19 -
The default font for the Bulma CSS framework is triggering my OCD.
JUST WHY ARE THEY NOT ALIGNED FFS?!
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"Ok can you make the background color black and the font green?"
"Sure"
"Okay now a 3D WebGL game but build from scratch" -
I feel sorry for myself as i thought Ariana Grande was a font
*shame* *shame* *shame*
*voices from game of thrones in my head now* -
looking at my uncle's webpage because he wants to switch hosts.
The logo has a white background, we want to change that.
Uncle: "It's not supposed to look like this"
Me: "the jpg file type is not transparent, you have to make something like a png."
U: *pulls up word* "hmm... I don't have that font on this laptop..."
M: *slowly loses sanity*1 -
well installed ubuntu on baytrail-M goes good but nohing was working so fixed wifi brightness but fucking Bluetooth still not working one option recompile kernel but dont know if it will work and font have that much space on tablet and i really need BT so i really dont know fucking community drivers3
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Just received a client who wants an updated wordpress theme, Thank God he came to me. I feel sorry that he had to run a site with this font.
Going to the site for the first time gave me goosebumps.
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A german blogger i occasionally read wrote something about finding the correct programming font for the personal liking and linked this:
http://app.programmingfonts.org/
Seems kinda fun. I am currently using Fira Code but "Cousin" looks kinda interesting.
Wanted to share3 -
Fuck you, discord.
Fuck you for not using a monospaced font for the code block on mobile. Renders my beautiful function to align stuff useless on mobile...
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For people still struggling to find the perfect font for their favorite editor, look at what I found:
http://app.programmingfonts.org
Test them before introducing bloat to your font directory.6 -
<<< prank victim today.
Swapped font so it would not display special characters and changed characters in my unit tests here and there...
Took me 40mins with headphones on, before the thought that I'm not at fault occurred...
Once you forget to lock your machine when going lunch..2 -
Yesterday a strange bug appeared in Chrome: In a small web app we have some umlaut characters like äöü. Strangely said characters were displayed as cyrillic, but only on my pc... On every other device it worked. I spent about 5 hours of checking encodings (everything was in UTF-8), reading posts in the almighty stackoverflow.
Finally i figured out, the font was broken. After reinstalling it, everything was peaceful again in my head. -
Ubuntu mono font is such a delight to use as a code font.
Changed all my IDE / Atom / Notepad++ fonts to use that as default now. :-)
http://font.ubuntu.com/2 -
*Designs front-end sends it to my boss*
Boss: Looks good. No changes needed.
*Hosts the design*
Boss: Ah, well these icons need to be different maybe and this font is too boring, try something else.
*Cries internally*4 -
So after two hours of debugging I get to know that Chrome doesn't differentiate between font-weight 100-500 unless on a Mac, and IE does, but IE doesn't support the <picture > tag 😶
10 -
You will realize that your life is fucked up when you write ' <i class="fa fa-laptop"></i>' in devRant instead of using emoji(💻).3
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FFFUUUU!!!
Damn Windows april update!
After a LOT of problems with drivers, bluetooth, etc. it even partially corrupted the font of a program, the console shows a list of data from a medical image database so i had a micro heart attack when i first saw this tinking the database was corrupted (i was checking out a problem)!
I bet it's the "smart" font re-sizing!!!
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FRIDAY MADNESS:
As I was so busy coding, one colleague was taking a break and distracts me as he's done with his task. As he approached, I snobbed.
Him: Dude, did you know that there's a generator for all the images in sprite?
Me: really? How?
Him: spritegen.website-performance.org. What's cool about it is that the html and css are already generated just like in font awesome. For example, that i tag...
Me: cool. I wonder dude, why would they use i tag when it makes the text italicize, right?
Him: right. Probably because its used for icons also because icons starts with letter i.
Me: LOL.
Him: LOL. -
FX [ Sits in bed, watches 32" TV.. ]
FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as screen is too small... ]
FX [ Buys a bigger screen.. (43") ]
FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as screen is still too small... ]
FX [ Buys a bigger screen.. (50") ]
FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as relative font size now means its smaller than previous screen! ]
What idiot designs the software for a 50" screen so it's so small you can't read it unless you are 1ft away !
FX [ Dreams of having a 65" screen... ]
FX [ Realises will need a bigger house as the walls get in the way.. ]5 -
// Feature Request START
Is it possible we can have some kind of markdown on posts and comments? Maybe not bold or italic, but because of the target of the app, some kind of one-line and multi-line code blocks that highlight from other text (for example: having a gray background, using a consolas font, etc)
// Feature Request END1 -
What the fuck happened to laravel docs, what fuckwad thought the only docs across the entire internet that are properly readable, need its shit fucked up and made into borderless, bold fontweight, shit font dogshit.
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Futurism.com
Please fix your fonts craze, on top of all the mixing, you have the hardest in-article font to read of any I can recall right now
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I cannot believe its 2020 and I'm reading: Customize font size for navigation items & tabs as "New Features!"
From Apple:
With an all-new design that looks great on macOS Big Sur, Xcode 12 has customizable font sizes for the navigator, streamlined code completion, and new document tabs5 -
just arriving at devRant and seeing you guys use one of my favorite font ... let's create an account ;-)5
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Kinda curious if there are any devs who don't use a monospace font when coding and what drove you to do such a horrible inhumane thing?7
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At first I wasn't crazy about it,. but I think I'm hooked now. I am a big fan of fira mono. I switched my xterm to use it, and it's really distinct and helpful. I highly recommend giving it a try.
https://mozilla.github.io/Fira/
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I want a font-awesome icon for devRant. Would be nice for mine and others' sites. Any designers around to submit as a suggestion for next version (or for other icon libraries)?5
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Downloaded SQL assigment
Scroll fown to find the tables and the data
A table with the worst font to use
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A facebook cover photo inspired by this rant: https://www.devrant.io/rants/375271
!rant
I used this font: http://marksimonson.com/fonts/view/...
and finally, I used this psd (gimp should be able to use it too): http://medialoot.com/item/...
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developing add-ons for Casio calculators is definitely the best experience. No syntax or error highlighting. Average failed builds between successful builds: 12 🤔
I won't mention the default font for the code editors in there is Arial... -
https://alldaydevops.com/register/
WHAT THE FUCK???? UX level: 9000
I do like dark themes in many places. But IMO this is just too much
And the font..? Is this registration for witch-hunt or satanists' party?17 -
When I signed up for the technical college and heard that we would have media tech classes, I was expecting frontend stuff like HTML, CSS and JS, not how to make folders and change the font in notepad. Fuck.1
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To those of you who want to remember things longer and faster. Especially for students. There is an efficient solution to this pain. It is free, btw.
"Sans Forgetica".
There's now a new font which is created by "a multidisciplinary team of designers and behavioural scientists from RMIT University".
This font uses "the principles of cognitive psychology to help you to better remember your study notes".
Editor's note: Yes, I was too lazy to write it on my own. The more you know ;)
Links:
http://sansforgetica.rmit/
https://t3n.de/news/...12 -
Has anyone here paid for a font? I'm thinking about dropping $200.00 for the Operator Mono font, I use Fira Code but that cursive typeface is SOOO FANCY.
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Google's new Material design, with more curvy elements with broad borders, woth cocky font ...... is UGLY as FUCK
12 year kid at work11 -
Hey, fellow devranters, there is a major update to the devBanner project, but before releasing it, we (or I) would like to ask you, fellow devranters, a question, or a simple poll.
Do you think white font is better in yellow bg? Or should we change to black font?
Leave your opinion !!!!
To see the sample pic, see the section below.
Thanks!
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Well it's not really a work experience but that makes me think of that time I deleted all the fonts from school's computer (5y/o)... I wanted to make space by deleting useless stuff, but after that every text document showed in Windings or whatever the fuck this symbol font name was. Well then the TA had to transfer them from another computer with a floppy disk, it took forever xD I felt like I was going to prison that day2
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Burn I hell whoever designed this font.
I just spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what special thing this for-loop does if it's just from 0 - 1
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Be me, wanting to try out PyOpenGL.
Lets start by drawing a rectangle.
Nice.
And now add some text?!
NOPE CANT RENDER FROM TTF OR SOME OTHER STUPID SHIT! YOU NEED TO CREATE A BITMAP FONT. WHICH IS THE MOST INEFFECTIVE BS IVE EVER SEEN.
K but there is surely a library for Python which enables the usage of text in OpenGL? Yes but its last support was 12 years ago.
FFS WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE?
At the end i found out cpp uses freetype to convert each character of a font to a bitmap with the according spacing.
THIS SHOULD BE WAY SIMPLER!5 -
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 my Thunderbird is presenting me the new font it has to render emojis in full glory (or not) when it displays Twitter summary emails which contain emojis from user messages and names.
See the full featured list in the attachment.
Yours sincerely
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*slamms door open*
*screams as loud as he can*
"FREE FONT DOWNLOAD"
Wait what?
*screaming even louder*
"FREE SATORI SANS FONT DOWNLOAD IT BELOW"
Wtf stop screaming.
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Not fired, but shot by my college, if I create a ticket that our software-ui isn't rendered correctly with font size 721
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Apparently did Microsoft released their own font called Cascadie Code
https://github.com/microsoft/...
I am still pretty keen on Fira Code, although i see myself browsing this page upon occassion
https://app.programmingfonts.org7 -
Another gem from the cunt I used to call my senior.
.nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a { font-size: 7pt !important; line-height: 30px !important; font-weight: normal !important; }
.nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a { font-size: 6pt !important; }
.nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a, .nav-tabs > li > a { font-size: 7pt !important; }
These are all on the same level (not in media queries) and only a couple of other lines of css between them.
I swear this jackass just wanted to watch the world burn.5 -
This is why you don't hire your son's friend to build your company's website. From a live (new) customer site that needs to be rewritten:
<h2><span class="wsite-text wsite-headline">
<font size="6"><font size="5"><font size="4"><font size="3"><font size="4"><font size="5"><font size="6"><font size="7"><font size="7"><font size="7"><font size="7"><font size="7"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><strong><font color="#e4e3f1" size="7">***REDACTED TITLE***</font></strong>
</span></h2>7 -
Anyone have the devrant font file
.ttf
Is it open to the public? I saw one in github but i cannot believe whether it os legit or fake1 -
When the WYSIWYG editor needs to go back to school for coding.
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span>
How is that even useful!?1 -
I must be some kind of retard to think that a fallback font would actually handle the characters not handled by the previous fonts.
I hate configuring fonts so fucking much4 -
I love italics in combination with font ligatures! Looks so great! What do you think? Italics yay or nay?
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"I want you to make a font, it needs to be heavy, but not too heavy. Like it should be able to float on water. So, bold enough to get a person's attention but not screaming"
...ok2 -
Schrodingers font size:
When you follow the directions given in the style guide, but it still doesn't match the mockups.
The chosen font size can be considered both wrong and right until examined by a member of the design team. -
New toy for frontend devs:
OpenType 1.8 Variable Fonts.
1 font file to rule them all. Manipulate on the fly fluidly the font weight via css and javascript.
http://blog.typekit.com/2016/09/...
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Have I told you that I love Sass? Yes? Well, that's fucking true! Like today I decided to host the used font myself and just include all font-awesome SCSS into my main.sass and saved one <link>. That boosted loading time and user don't have to see those ugly squares while page is loading. I'm truly in love.7
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Had a teacher that taught the intro to programming course by youtube videos. He wanted us to build the same app he was making in the videos as the assignment. He kept his code snippets private and expected us all to type it all out. He was on a 1080p resolution desktop... but his videos were 360p resolution with 8pt font.....
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FontAwesome just made my day...
PiedPiper from Silicon Valley is listed as one of the websites that uses their tech!
+ PiedPiper is fucking awesome and so is their website (http://www.piedpiper.com)
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Down with Helvetica code blocks in devRant!
When you write something inside `these quotes` in Telegram, it gets rendered in a monospace font.1 -
So, apparently, content entry is front end development.
It's all right there on our old site, just copy and paste it ... Complete with millions of annoying span and font tags you used.2 -
I've known about ligature fonts for about two years now. First thoughts where "ewh Im not gonna get used to it".
Kinda forgot about it until someone mentioned it to me. I tried it out since it was built in IntelliJ and don't want anything else anymore. But when pair programming I do get some confused looks.
What is your opinion on ligature fonts like Fira Code?2 -
Funny how fucken emojis, which came into applications (web or even native) by completely overusing them on mobile, don't really work on mobile.1
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Just checked my college's website and every thesis has to use times new roman. But thats a proprietary font?? I mean they do provide student licenses for windows but why the fuck is using a proprietary font a requirement?11
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A CPU intensive and pointless program to determine the font of text in a picture.
I didn't get past downloading every single google font. TTF drawing bug crushed my dreams. Will upload files to github if you want to see the mess
PS wanted to write it in Python lol7 -
Hey guys, this isn't a rant. I just really want to know what is the font style used in devRant's logo?2
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Developing an app in Unity, gotta add some icons, my boss tells me unironically:
- "hey, use font-awesome!"
Yeah, right, like I can use HTML tags into unity or go check the specific code for the specific symbol, are you out of your mind?7 -
Trying a new font for general use. This font was one of the options for powerline that's based on the terminal fonts from the mid 70's. It's kinda funny how much tech has changed and yet how little of it really has.
I won't use it for dev work though. That credit goes to Fira Code.
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Having an eye for detail and being annoyed by slight imperfections is extremely annoying at some times.
Yesterday I spent the evening setting up elementary os on my private laptop and I wanted to start coding a new personal project after setting up my IDE.
I ended up spending the evening trying to fix the font of my ZSH terminal which annoyed me so much but was absolutely not blocking any progress. Moral of the story: sometimes you just gotta let go3 -
I decided to try a new mono font in my editor, this is a relatively new font called IBM Plex.
I can hear the sounds of a 1401 crunching through the punch cards while the printing out curlies that scream THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Mmmmm....I like it.
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!rant Thought you guys might be interested in this new-ish (compared to say... Futura) programming font, Iosevka.
https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/
It's configurable and can be compiled from source but also has pretty good defaults. Really enjoyed using it these past few weeks.2 -
I had a developer put the css font declaration on every css class, instead of the body... The site used just one font 🤔😂1
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beware of font choices in chat apps; a coworker joked in the room that "well, sure, of course it's okay to update in production in the middle of the day" and for some reason, the other coworker didn't see the quotes because of the weird font they use, and also didn't stop to think, and went ahead and ran the deployment script. In production. In the middle of the day. With active users.
The good news is that those folks who logged back in got to use the new version a whole lot earlier than anyone was expecting. :\2 -
Found an article where two fonts were combined to achieve an awesome looking effect for vscode, The fonts were Fira Code + Operator Mono
Tried to download Operator Mono but...
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!rant, just asking the wise devRant community for advice:
What is a good laptop that works well with linux? Thanks in advance :)11 -
designer sent over a mockup that uses Illustrator's missing font color as button/brand color. why??
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Hey Guys!
@alexdovzhanyn and I just released the third episode of Runtimerror Live!
We talk about various things like the DynDDoS attack, recursion and much more.
https://runtimerror.com/podcast/...
We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it :)1 -
I love unicode-table.com for what it does, but this does not seem right...
https://unicode-table.com/de/1F98A/
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Installing Fedora Workstation as a dual booting system
Found this, only me thinks that's really close font to Comfortaa? (That used on devRant)
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Surprised noone has yet preached the amazingness of this font here.
https://tobiasjung.name/profont/16 -
!rant
Hey Everyone, I am trying to create a Font from the couple of SVG files that I rendered from processing.
Here is the announcement rant, and you can find the code repos there too.
https://devrant.io/rants/602414/...
But I have ran into a problem.
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/...
Any Ways to solve it. It's going to be free and open Source too.
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!Rant
When you can't decide on a font
I'm using Zooper widgets, tasker and my Python assistant.
I want a clean looking font, but I can't decide
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Two identical websites. Both have identical files, settings, and contents. Both have identical style.css files.
One has H1-H6 headings that display in the "Rye" font as I've specified. The other's "Rye" font is completely AWOL. I'm just getting the site default.
But the sites are exact clones of each other?!?!?!5 -
Detecting platform in cmake (which I hate).
WHY do you display "armv71", yet can't match the string "armv71"???!?
I'll need to post my cmake lists and cli results on stackoverflow.
OK, last try, I'll copy and paste from the terminal into my file.
Ooooh! You weren't saying "armv71"! You were saying "armv7l"! 😥
(And my font does make a difference between l and 1)1 -
So i'm making a menu for my friend. He shows me a menu he made on his iPad, all in Chalkboard SE (identical to Comic Sans), lined up using tabs and spaces, and asked for the same font.
I'm not joking.2 -
What terminal font and om-my-zsh theme are you using? I'm using Inconsolata font and bullet-train theme 😎3
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I'm slowly migrating the primary e-commerce, highly outdated Joomla site at work to a licensed, out-of-the-box, designed for a printing company e-commerce system. The first step, in order to understand the system, is to migrate a business card generator to this platform. The original generator (which deserves its own rant) is for a very large and well-known client. In order to transfer to the new system, I have to recreate each business card in the specified format. However, the system requires PDFs made in Adobe Acrobat Pro. The original projects are from Adobe InDesign (which I do not have), so I have a lot of manual, very tedious work to do. Because the client is strict about their card designs, I need to remake them exactly. Well, exactly includes the font they used.
It's not as if we do not have the font at work. On no, we have copies alright. It's just that the InDesign projects, and the font, are on Macs. And the font is a PostScript file. The system requires OTF or TTF fonts. Which nobody has. So I spend my first week (last week) trying to get this paid font. I feel as if I was making a fiasco. We finally identify the exact font, even the weights, and purchase them. Today after lunch. Great! I can finally get these four cards finished. Timing is alright, I've had a busy morning trying to track down emergency issues that arose from deploying some code yesterday morning for a different system (my internship project from last year, actually).
I finish the cards. Not wanting to tackle the vertical cards or deal with the incorrect and inconsistent info on one card type right now (the client really doesn't need to know I'm remaking these and I don't need to tip them off), I start this other card from the same client. I get everything roughly in place. I even stay late to work on this to make up for lost time trying to get that font. I open the model PDF to check what font it uses, as it is different from the one we just bought, the one every other card from this client uses.
Helvetica.
I check my computer, don't have it. I check multiple co-worker's computers, even old ones. Nothing. The Macs have it... in PostScript format.
I should have started on the vertical cards. Oh, and my Acrobat Pro trial says it has "1 day left". I'm expecting it to be dead in the morning. Which means I can't get any work done until the lady gets in office and purchases me a license, which won't be until after 9:30 AM....1 -
Coding font of choice?
I want to use Inconsolata but the warm embrace of Menlo is too much to resist.
Oh, and maybe I should clear out some fonts...
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I just had to spend 10 minutes of my life going through 674 lines of HTML code and deleting every font tag, with there being at least one font tag on every line.2
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I really love Ubuntu Mono and similar fonts, because they're nice to look at while coding, so I tried to use it in Emacs.
Man, what it produced is just... disgusting! I couldn't see anything even in Ubuntu Mono "normal" version (not bold, not italic) with size 10 (my normal size).
In smaller size I almost couldn't recognize characters in code, in bigger it yelled at me I'm blind. Wtf emacs...6 -
Just spent 4 hours finishing a bullshit assignment for a bullshit class for college. I've never been so close to actually kick my PC as when I was trying to make MS Word put a fucking table *above* some text instead of *in the middle* of a fucking word. For context: I've played 5 hours of DS3 fighting pontiff sulyvahn and didn't rage.
The worst part: it's a fucking group assignment, so I can't use something like latex, since in the only one who knows it. Even then, I would have to make sure I'm using the correct font, since the professor only allows one specific font *and* he sometimes checks it. No idea how, since we print it, but he failed some people because of wrong font. -
!rant
Microsoft's font making headlines these days
The Calibri font could be an unlikely smoking gun in a corruption scandal which has mired Pakistan's ruling family https://t.co/BnONnwMas01 -
One thing I hate about receiving secured passwords on secured channels like Signal is the font. Really grinds my gears that I can't tell if that's an l (lowercase L) or an I (uppercase i) and more so with 0 and O. Uuuugghh2
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not a huge bug, but it was my most recent one. was building a website and I wanted a custom font, so I put in
@font-face {
font-family: "Font";
src: url ("fonts/font.otf") format("opentype");
}
but this wasn't working. looked for about a day (while working on other stuff) finally found an article that said I needed absolute paths to the font rather than relative paths. so /css/fonts/font.otf worked4 -
What fonts do you use?
I've always used the editor default font, but now I want something that looks nicer...17 -
I so f#!ing hate how "font-weight: bold" looks on mozilla (the bottom one) compare to the chrome.
Chrome looks so modern and elegant >< .
Or is this some compatibility properties that i got to add ?
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Is there good monospaced font for windows? specially android studio, i don't know who the hell is choose this shits for MS..
MS your fonts are sucks, believe me :)6 -
What in the name of fuck has apple done to font rendering in macOS Mojave. My fonts used to look the sexiest with the mac font rendering and the retina display in High Sierra.
Now my fonts in the terminal and VSCode look like they got fucking anorexia.
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How to do SEO in the easy way
On a white background write the keywords many times and make it color: white
Use a tiny font-size and make the text unselectable
You're welcome1 -
Why the fuck is it Impossible to get crisp font rendering on chrome (widows desktop), Firefox looks sooooo much more crispy... Get your shit together Google, also while your at it, catch up to Firefox with WebAssembly loading time.
And Firefox, it would be really nice if you could start supporting brotli compression... Just saying.3 -
Holy shit font rendering is a pain in the ass..
Why are there no proper guides for harfbuzz and pango out there? -
Any programming font suggestions? I want to use Fira Code for its ligature but Sublime don't have support for ligature, I tried it working in VSCode but it's slow af compared to Sublime11
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When you receive a psd file with a million layers, when all you really need from it is the colour values and what font/size they've used and some measurements. You'll just do it all properly with CSS. Better off with a flat png or 2 with transparency and some original vectors.
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I can't find a good theme for my jetbrains ides. Can you please recommend some color scheme, font or theme?4
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My badass dev moment was when I read a valve white paper on text rendering and implemented a dynamic text version of it in webgl. That white paper was about signed distance fields and how to hack the alpha channel of an image to bake in some font smoothing data.... Holy fuck that felt good. Oh and it looked good too!1
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What's your favorite monospace font for use in a terminal emulator? I enjoy Fira Mono, myself, but if you're using something you like, I would love to know what it is and why you like it.7
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Last work day before the new year and I was trying to make the manager understand that I couldn't say the max number of characters of a line because the font wasn't monospaced 😓1
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Please, before exporting anything in whatever editor you use, check if it is in UTF-8. Today I didn't knew why my new font wasn't working in certain places and I later discovered that more than 9000 characters were replaced by the replacement character...
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What font do you guys use in your editor?
I have always used consolas but lately I have really gotten used to fonts like NSimSun, GulimChe or MSGothic which are a bit more edgy and aliased, which honestly goes pretty well with code imo5 -
Why is it that everything looks so ugly in Ubuntu? By everything, I mean the IDEs (Eclipse/Intellij), editors (sublime/vs code) and even the web pages. They look more clean and pleasing in Windows or Mac.
Is there a extension or plugin that'll make things look "pleasing"?
Sure, I can edit the font to be anything I want in vs code, but it is only for the editor. The sidebar and the menu still is in default system font (I don't like Ubuntu font)4 -
Trying to improve my console experience with Windows, I had antergos with Sindragosa in background and blue console font before, now it's time for Doomguy + yellow font and I like it :P
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I'm creating a bitmap font right now and wanted to automatically generate a image with some text so I can track my progress how it looks. gnome-font-viewer displays it fine, but it'd nothing compared to some real text. Well, how hard can it be?
First attempt: Use ImageMagick to create an image and draw some text. I found a forum post in the ImageMagick forums from 2017 claiming incorrect rendering of BDF fonts, which was promised to be fixed. Yet convert does exactly nothing besides saying “couldn't read font”.
Looking around, there is exactly one tool for the job I'm looking to get done: pbmtext. It works, but doesn't support Unicode. Egh.
Maybe I could write a short script to do it, then? Python's Pillow can import Bitmap fonts (cairo can't). Halfway done I notice it can't deal with anything outside of the character range 0..256.
Using FreeFont directly is out of the question as that seems to be equally much work as creating the font in the first place. I briefly tried SDL, but the font formats it understands are limited.
So how about converting the font then, you ask? Everyone seems to be only concerned about the other way (like OTF to BDF). I tried loading the font into FontForge and exporting an OTF or TTF but couldn't get anything out of it that ImageMagick recognizes as a font.
It seems fucking impossible to render text to an image with an Unicode BDF font in some automated way.
To add insult to injury, my searches containing “bdf” are always interpreted as with “pdf”. I'm not even a Franconian, I can distinguish B and P!4 -
! Rant
In our office I'm the only one who installed plugins on my sublime text and make sure i have a great font, nice theme. All of them just plain stock sublime text.4 -
Where has the Fira code font been all my life? It's epic and free.
Nearly spent £150 on the operator font.4 -
Want a simple but terrible annoying prank?
Change the keyboard map from UTF8 to ASCII or vice versa and set the system font to something funky like a Greek or Cyrillic variant... :)1 -
Asking for a friend. Anyone here know how to get code syntax highlighting in Photoshop?
Screenshot and removing the background doesn’t help. It screws up the font of the code.
🙏🏻4 -
I have an idea to request an icon to FontAwesome project then I went to their github project and found this: https://github.com/FortAwesome/...
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I really wanted font ligatures so I took the plunge and ditched Consolas for Iosevka. I didn't think I could love another font, but oh my!
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(!rant && question)
For the front-end devs out there, do you guys prefer using font-weight to change the weight of the font or do you guys prefer using separate names (Font Name Black, Font Name Bold, and so on)2 -
Anyone using a paid font in their code editors? I have been using the regular old Fira Code on my workbenches, but lately I've kinda opened up to the idea of actually buying a font because I would use it almost every day. If you did, what made you do it?8
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Hey devrant, any chance we could get a setting for monospace font, or would that break too many things?2
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I was using using mate, today I switched to antergos, the font does not look good as it did in ubuntu. Anything I am missing?7
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That Moment when you write something in an editor that provides a font where some stuff lookes almost the same.
When col1 becomes coll
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Has anybody ideas how to convince my friends that Comic Sans is bad? They are all using it on their phones!!!1
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Does anyone know of a font, or something, where i can get brand logo icons in their original colors?
Because i dont want to throw a whole folder of icons in my projects manually every time5 -
What are your favorite fonts for your system?
I use SFNS Display and Menlo for the terminal.
Whats your flavor?4 -
Worst dev tech, it has to be MS Word. Apparently they follow the OOXML guidelines to create a Word doc but they have to put in their own shit-flavored ingredients to increase a developer's misery. Parsing that document is pure agony.
I was looking for a way to find the default font size of the document and found this gem https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/F... -
I have a function called evil_js_cleaner because there is a js menu plug-in that a colleague made me use as part of a new standardized font end template . When using the js menu , it would put a bunch of extra garbage into my php _REQUEST array.1
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so here's a rant/question
So I'm having an issue with vertical-metrics in a font I'm using which results in mac aligning it in the middle and windows aligning it at the bottom. I tried re-converting it for webfont (fixing vertical metrics in fontsquirrel) but not luck so far,
any ideas?
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Spent a when afternoon trying to solve a unworking font-face implementation to IE. The implementation was bullet-proof. Guess what, it works on IE11 but the company only uses IE8.. Good thing it's not my job to say which version to use 😄5
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You guys, what commonly fontFamily you are using in making an android app? I'm not good in looking a good font, hoping all of you help me. Thanks very much.3
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Been playing around with bootstrap and mvc, with custom fonts. Feedback on font. www.diginotes.co.uk
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Thinking of developing sublime plugin that would convert font-awesome 4 icons to 5. The plugin will search for all files with configured extensions and replace the icon classnames. Eg <i class="fa fa-cab"></i> will become <i class="fas fa-taxi"></i>. It wont work for inproper spacing and dynamic icons.
Is there anything already developed?6 -
I ban agency as one of the industry I avoid to work in, you know why? Because too much of manual work like changing the font size of this and that which I think waste too much of my time!
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student here.
just spent over an hour working on my final project trying to figure out why space padding "wouldn't work" in my strings...
i wasn't using a monospaced font.
*facepalm*
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