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• Post #4140045

  Stylebot is half of what I’ve been searching for for years: a simple tool that lets me change all text on Wikipedia from Arial to Castoro or any other font. And then I learned about “Specificity Wars.” Which is why it doesn’t work at all on here, or on X, and Facebook and Wikipedia need several passes, and then still some of the older font remains.

• Post #4140044

  Despite all the hysterical complaints about AI and data centers, I will never tire of AI-generated Adventures of JD Vance.

• Post #4140043

  I just found this tech rabbit hole that is no doubt of interest to some font folks, even though there’s no strict font content I can spot. https://yedlin.net/NerdyFilmTechStuff/

• Post #2693056

  The preview mechanism on MyFonts seems to center each glyph vertically in its square, making for a rather jarring presentation. Example: Van Dijck.

• Post #2693055

  You might be impersonating a police officer if you’re also impersonating a font.

• Post #2693054

  “Calligraphy” is the name of the top luxury trim available on the 2026 Hyundai Palisade. Which essentially comes across the way Doug Demuro pronounces it.

• Post #2693053

  I just noticed that GhostScript seems to have somehow changed its license from GPL to commercial, which I never imagined possible with GPL. (I’m partial to MIT/BSD-style licenses for FOSS.) And I could swear it’s not the first I’ve spotted recently. What other free software software is suddenly being fed after midnight?

• Post #2693052

  Casually looking around for an 1867 printing of the Divine Comedy with Dorés engravings at original size, I chanced upon this 1938 printing from Berlin with a rather ghoulish dedication page, but more interestingly, some kind of uncial grotesk attempt in the body type. Elsewhere some Walbaum and what might be Genzsch-Antiqua. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235196758869?_skw=Dante+Alghieris+G%C3%B6ttliche+Kom%C3%B6die&itmmeta=01K83DH3JS9GKB8WZD4SP85DJF&hash=item36c2d1bb55:g:wO0AAOSwcfV...

• Post #2693051

  Font detective work is in the news again, this time faked screenshots accusing Ben Shapiro of writing bigoted remarks about Candace Owens. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/laughably-fake-candace-owens-charlie-kirk-slave-texts-debunked-analyst-1753585

• Post #2693050

  I don’t know if it’s edit wars, something else, or some combination, but the quality of Wikipedia has been deteriorating for years, and Musk’s fork Grokipedia is now in the ascendant. Compare articles on: Scangraphic, Otto Hupp, Gerrit Noordzij, 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate, Ditran, Adobe Framemaker, kalmia latifolia. The one area where Wikipedia wins is illustrations (Grokipedia 0.2 currently has none.) I suspect Grokipedia 1.0 will have illustrations.