And here I was, thinking it was Hayley Duncan with A.G. Cook and SOPHIE

For those, like me, with the memory of a goldfish:

“You’ll quickly discover you shouldn’t use the regular variant, but should instead opt for the Nokia Sans Wide variant.”

You'll be stuck with Fira Code forever! Hue hue hue hue

I don't hate it like you do, but I do agree with one thing: Roboto is a great font!

Definitely agree. Also, Myriad Pro will always have a place in my heart.

Out of the three fonts you mentioned that you liked (Palatino Linotype, Roboto, Cantarell), only Palatino Linotype has a true visual difference between a capital i, a lowercase L, and the number one. However, the differences between a lowercase L and the number 1 we're not significant enough for me (example: hello and he11o looked similar enough to be confused as the same when seen on their own). Other than that, I really liked the font.

Cantarell is indeed nice. Gnome switched to Inter recently, but I could only stomach it for a few minutes before switching back to ol' Cant.

Gentium is a nice FLOSS alternative. As for Garamonds, Ysabeau is a beautiful sans serif Garamond and Cormorant is a serif Garamond by the same creator

Gentium Specimen

I don't know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I've used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.

For UI like menus and such, I'm quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.

Personally, I always use Palatino in any reader view or book app, if possible. It massively reduces my brain strain; it’s a complete godsend!

I prefer the SF and IBM Plex fonts for desktop.

awful grammar and typography for being carved in stone

It's got some chunky sentences and it needs a comma twice and a hyphen once; but is Lemmy the place to talk about this? For instance, it's got

• no kid-pidgen, with the lols and mids and caps.
• not a single comma splice or a run-on sentence.
• some punctuation to speak of; which truly sets it apart.

Honestly, it scores above the curve, for Lemmy or for engraving. There's surprisingly bad writing on recent monuments.

Is the second line from the bottom in a smaller font than the rest? Apparently this person has never hand drawn any sort of banner or poster before. Classic mistake.