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jszymborski
12 days ago
I think this illustrates that you can just do stuff without claiming it is useful. Like couldn't you just make this font and call it something like double-entendre or something?
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nine_k
12 days ago
Doing something that's interesting or cool without claiming any pragmatic use is usually called art.
This could more readily be seen as an art project.
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hnlmorg
12 days ago
Or a hobby.
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BugsJustFindMe
12 days ago
You could, but is that what they've done?
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jszymborski
12 days ago
I'm just saying they should just drop the dubious claims and just say "I made a font that I think looks cool".
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BugsJustFindMe
12 days ago
Oh, I fully agree
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This could more readily be seen as an art project.