I use Comic Sans because it's easier on the eyes, easier to scale down without horrible horrible anti-aliasing, and having variable-width fonts helps me locate a unique part I need, when searching with tools would take more time. I don't even like fixed-width fonts. You're wasting space, a lot of space.
I'll take 4pt comic sans on a 16:10 1980x1020, thank you very much. Well it's not real comic sans, I reprojected some things like spaces and tabs, because those too took up too much space. Do you know what it's like to have 30 floating windows open, and still be productive? I do. But it comes at a severe cost. I can't use package managers for anything non-curses. Modern open-source UI designers would like me to see me claw out my eyes and stroke out from claustrophobia. Firefox's smallest font? 9px. For what reason, Mozilla? For what good reason do you limit me by getting in my way! I've had to build from source my own Firefox-ESR, with font patches, menu patches (resize it all, remove those god awful separators, PUT THE BOOKMARKS BACK IN THE MAIN OPTION MENU, remove the second search bar, remove padding of text, replace buttons with UTF-8 symbols, everything must be smaller!!). Now multiply this for every graphical software you need. The price I pay for productivity.
Even now, after installing Linux again on another machine, I'm just hit with this huge wave of dread "why is the tty so goddamn big?" Designers have cursed us with bloat, but non-designers have cursed us with claustrophobia!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:04PM
I use Comic Sans because it's easier on the eyes, easier to scale down without horrible horrible anti-aliasing, and having variable-width fonts helps me locate a unique part I need, when searching with tools would take more time. I don't even like fixed-width fonts. You're wasting space, a lot of space.
I'll take 4pt comic sans on a 16:10 1980x1020, thank you very much. Well it's not real comic sans, I reprojected some things like spaces and tabs, because those too took up too much space. Do you know what it's like to have 30 floating windows open, and still be productive? I do. But it comes at a severe cost. I can't use package managers for anything non-curses. Modern open-source UI designers would like me to see me claw out my eyes and stroke out from claustrophobia. Firefox's smallest font? 9px. For what reason, Mozilla? For what good reason do you limit me by getting in my way! I've had to build from source my own Firefox-ESR, with font patches, menu patches (resize it all, remove those god awful separators, PUT THE BOOKMARKS BACK IN THE MAIN OPTION MENU, remove the second search bar, remove padding of text, replace buttons with UTF-8 symbols, everything must be smaller!!). Now multiply this for every graphical software you need. The price I pay for productivity.
Even now, after installing Linux again on another machine, I'm just hit with this huge wave of dread "why is the tty so goddamn big?" Designers have cursed us with bloat, but non-designers have cursed us with claustrophobia!