DarthGraben

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's pretty common to come across someone online claiming they’re just too smart to ever be fooled by conspiracies/cults (religious, political, commercial), but it's actually really important not to assume intelligence is all you need to avoid it. Everyone should be aware of and have a guard up against tactics of undue influence. It might be easier to reach the conspiracy/cult believers if we could say 'look, it's not that you're stupid', but it seems like this article is suggesting the rest of the sentence is 'it's just that you're bad at thinking', which isn't a lot better... ha.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seconding this recommendation! I caught parts of it on the radio last weekend and the week before. It was way more fascinating than I expected…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh shit! I see it now :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What counts as print these days though? When I first started working, we'd get literal boxes shipped to us with 1,000+ page documents inside. Now it's a cloud link that opens with a PDF reader. Does that still count as print? Genuinely curious, because I see conflicting advice depending on if its print or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is super helpful! Fun fact - Erewhon is also a small chain of very high end markets in Los Angeles. Now I'm going to have to research what this word means and who came up with it first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the recs. I thought one of the fonts in the link was called Potato Sans, so now that one is my new personal favorite forever, even if it's actually called Pontano Sans. :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dyslexie was one of the first fonts I looked at specifically for accessibility purposes. Unfortunately, despite it's utility, it looks too much like a 'fun' font for our documents. Our reports are publicly published for the legal/administrative record, and need to reflect that level of professionalism. :/

Someone else suggested a font that's helpful for vision impaired people that I will take forward in this process, so maybe I can get a different accessible font through. Really appreciating the thoughtfulness for people with various reading challenges!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Cool cool cool. Really valuable feedback. Thanks for dropping by.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the font rec. I despise Word but have colleagues who would be unable to function in something like LaTeX. Oh well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I didn't know that! It's going in the pile for further consideration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Out of curiosity, what font were you using before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

gotcha. Serif fonts seem more readable to me in every setting, but they also look stuffy. ¯\(ツ)

 

I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about typography/fonts.

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