Ouch. I have a shirt with a kerning pun in my shop, & I seriously pondered adding to the product description “this feels like tempting someone to correct some manner of how this was typeset in order to prove their own proficiency vs. Random Shirt They Saw on the Internet, but alas.”
The type design community is an interesting one… one of the main reasons I didn’t like Threads. The algo shoved that stuff in my face and it was always so argumentative.
I have a lot of 💙❤️ for the type design community. It was just this one time when I really struck a cord with many of them. I teach my students now if you're going to write criticism you can't then be surprised if your criticism receives criticism.
I couldn't do my job without type designers, so no shade towards them. It is just one of those things where social media communities tend to be loud and sometimes even toxic. But places like Twitter and now Threads breed that discourse. Hot take hits the top of the algo and arguments fly.
I mean it’s an academic paper so it’s missing all the colorful details. It wasn’t all outrage only half of the community was outraged happy to tell you the whole story if we ever cross paths irl.
You know, when i think of vindictive people on twitter. Typographers rank somewhere between people that post pictures of pugs and actual pugs. You sure know where to find some oddballs :D
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