“The history of typefaces is the history of forgeries.”
The Font Forging Industry
Forgery, Cloning, Piracy, Plagiarism of Fonts
Documentations for Prosecutors and Criminal CourtsPlease Note: This old website is no longer updated.
Most documents were written in the years 2004-2008.
It’s SO funny!!
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR
Maybe a bit too practical for this thread.
But I’ve been trying to use Windows, and I can’t read Segoe UI Regular, the default system font. I’m trying to figure out how to replace this and other unreadable fonts, and set substitutions for when apps request nonexistent fonts.
Yes, there are options to increase font size, but not font weight.
On that note:
Good luck trying to get Windows to do anything that makes sense, makes using it easier, or just adjusts to something you like. The is no way it’s going to let you easily change the default system font, and probably not at all. Windows is “designed” by nazis who only want to torture us, while taking our money and cackling maniacally.
Here’s me at work: my entire Word document is single-spaced 12-point Times. I copy some text from earlier in my document, text that is in 12-point Times, and I paste it into the same document, replacing highlighted text that is in 12-point Times, and Word pastes what I copied AS 11-POINT CALIBRI! WHAT THE FUCK, WORD?!?
Fucking sadists.
Because Word is copying styles, which can be 12-point Times, but can also be whatever-normal-is-set-to-in-this-document. In Word 2003 there was at least a nice sidebar that showed all the current styles and where they applied, and if you used that you could hammer out problems like that. But they’ve replaced it with something more elaborate and possibly less powerful and I have no idea how any more.
Likewise, I used to know how to change system fonts four or five Windows ago. 
For Windows, I understand if they’re worried that someone will change the system font to Zapf Dingbats and be unable to change it back. And I understand why they think scaling everything will help. It’s just that it requires too much scaling for too little effect. If you need to double the font weight (like light to semi-bold with the same font, or replacing Segoe UI with Roboto), it will require less than 2x the space, maybe 1.5x the space; if your only option is to double the scaling (with a mix of font scaling and screen scaling), it will require 4x the space.
Ford Word, it’s a mess. At least in LibreOffice, it’s not too hard to check and edit styles, or to remove direct formatting.
But it also gives you the option to paste text with the source formatting or without. There’s a small context menu that pops up for that after a paste. I honestly think Word (and Office in general) aren’t that bad. It’s the other OS stuff that makes Windows unbearable at times.
My wife was a legal secretary (and later a paralegal) for many years. Her law office used WordPerfect, but she had to use Office for some city- and county-mandated things. After a particularly frustrating struggle with an Office document, she summed up the problem pretty well, I thought: “WordPerfect lets you do what you want to do; Office lets you do what it wants you to do.”
Right. The small context menu that defaults to something other than what was copied or where it’s being pasted, because styles, and then doesn’t go away after you’ve wasted time telling it that you want it to paste WHAT YOU FUCKING COPIED, obscuring where your cursor is and making editing impossible? That context menu? I am familiar with it, yes.
It will be so much simpler once the context menu is just a message that states, “Don’t yell at me. You are the product.”
The candelabra looks a little out of place, but pretty great overall.
This museum always struggled for attention in Stockwell and effectively closed in the early 2000’s but a visit was always instructive, the custodians were so enthusiastic and keen to share the decades/centuries of learning.
