[walthamstow]

Excalidraw has proliferated quite widely in my company since we got Claude Code. Its a shame the default font is ugly, childish and inaccessible.

[freedomben]

I love excalidraw, but I have to agree. It also looks very unprofessional so if you ever have to write customer-facing diagrams, you have tool fragmentation. I just stick to draw.io now (aka diagrams.net)

[ChadNauseam]

Why does it cause tool fragmentation? You can change the font to a normal sans-serif font or to a monospaced font.

Personally I like the default font. It looks weird to have my crappy doodles next to a normal computer font. The default one is very legible but has a style (and ligatures) that make it feel not too neat

[freedomben]

Interesting, I'll have to check that out. Do you know if that a new feature (in the last few years)?

[lloydatkinson]

Whiteboard handwriting is childish?

[walthamstow]

It's not on a whiteboard, nor was it written by hand. It's a computer font.

[lloydatkinson]

The Excalidraw website describes itself as: Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

And the GitHub repo says: An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.

It's the intended design...

[walthamstow]

Cool. I have stated my opinions on their intended design.

[lloydatkinson]

Cool. I have stated the facts of the product.

[bundie]

It just looks weird not childish.