Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I just thought I'd mention this here, since tragically so few people have ever heard of it: my all-time favorite font is called B612.

B612 is a free and open source font that was designed from inception for use on aircraft cockpit screens specifically. So it was designed with a significant amount of money behind it, to maintain maximum legibility and minimum eye strain across a wide range of conditions, in other words. I've been using it in status bars, window managers, and as the default font for GTK for a few years now. In my experience, it performs about as well as millions of dollars worth of research would have you believe.

It used to be proprietary, but it's now distributed under open source licenses.

No matter who you are, I implore you to give B612 a try, unless you literally don't want the text on your computer to be extremely legible and/or if you enjoy headaches, in which case please don't. My vision is 20/15 naturally and my main monitor is color correct. I can read font most people can't. Looking somewhere on my screen, expecting to see B612, and seeing some other font instead, still irritates me instantly because that's how good it is.

It's free. There's no reason not to try it.

Thank you.

https://b612-font.com/

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612

#font #fonts #typography #ui #accessibility #foss

Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course

Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next? The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slapped IT Career Change Ltd on the wrist over a September 2024 ad promoting a career in Health & Safety.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/asa_it_career_change/

Someone is sticking googly eyes on sculptures in Bend, Oregon, and while residents love them, the city isn't happy. Here's more from @Smithsonianmag.

https://flip.it/pTyxnT

#Art #PublicArt #Sculptures #Oregon

#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science

There's a post going around right now that is a long, thorough analysis of the failures of technology in the last decade, and its is very good.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

It's full of zingers like "The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years."

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"Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time." — Steven Wright

I have proven this myself many times over many years.