Apple's idea of excitement: swapping the
#TrueType Hinting Interpreter 💤 What next, a thrilling seminar on how to organize your sock drawer? 🤔 Meanwhile, even
#Helvetica is considering an early retirement from this snoozefest. 🧦📉
https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/ #Apple #Excitement #DesignHumor #SoftwareUpdates #HackerNews #ngated
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displays. Modern high-resolution displays enable beautiful typography from outlines alone, but TrueType fonts that need hinting to render legibly remain in use and we continue to support them.
Font parsers process data from untrusted sources, making the TrueType hinting interpreter a security-critical attack surface. To make the format more resilient on Apple platforms, we rewrote its hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for the Fall 2025 releases. In addition to memory safety, we also improved performance: on average, our Swift interpreter runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced.
To accompany this post, we’ve also published the source code of the Swift TrueType hinting interpreter. We hope sharing our experience helps others doing similar work in Swift.
🌍✨ Behold, the groundbreaking "1worldflag": a blue dot on a transparent void. Because nothing screams
#unity like a minimalist PowerPoint graphic pretending to solve world peace. 🏳️🌈🙄
https://1worldflag.com/ #1worldflag #minimalism #worldpeace #designhumor #HackerNews #ngated
oneworldflag - 1worldflag
🚦 Oh, because the world was just crying out for a deep dive into the riveting saga of road sign fonts! 🛑 But don't worry, if you're in the US or Canada, you're mercifully spared from this typographic yawn-fest masquerading as a book. 📚
https://www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-news-features/designing-the-transport-typeface-margaret-calvert-on-the-making-of-britain-s-road-signs #roadsignfonts #typographydive #USCanada #bookreview #designhumor #yawnfest #HackerNews #ngated
Designing the Transport Typeface: Margaret Calvert on the Making of Br
Margaret Calvert reveals how she designed Transport, the iconic typeface and signage system that transformed Britain’s motorways.
Ah, the age-old
#debate of serif vs. sans serif, now with *more toggles* than your grandma's cable box 📺. Apparently, the secret to better
#legibility lies in a 10,000-word thesis that could put an insomniac to sleep faster than Comic Sans. Good thing
#JavaScript is disabled, or the endless navigation menus would have you lost forever. 🤦♂️🔍
https://library.oapen.org//handle/20.500.12657/53344 #serifvsansserif #typography #designhumor #HackerNews #ngatedThe Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces
Ah, the art of recreating your grandma's wallpaper in SVG form 🤦♂️! Fifty shades of triangles and blobs, because nothing screams "cutting-edge design" like 2D clip art. 🖍️✨ Meanwhile, somewhere in the universe, a real artist weeps. 🎨😢
https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/ #SVGart #GrandmaDesign #RetroArt #ClipArt #DesignHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Free SVG Backgrounds and Patterns
👉 Our backgrounds are customizable in many ways. Each background is unique and collectively these designs explore the various capabilities and attributes of SVG.
🎨🤓 Oh joy, yet another deep dive into the thrilling world of color spaces because, obviously, we all love pondering the existential implications of RGB's
#inadequacies. Let's all pretend we're excited to separate our lightness from our a's and b's, while feigning interest in achieving unparalleled color precision that no human eye will ever demand. 🌈🤣
https://kaizoudou.com/from-rgb-to-lab-color-space/ #colorSpaces #colorTheory #RGB #colorPrecision #designHumor #HackerNews #ngated
From RGB to L*a*b* color space - Kaizoudou
How do we assess color accuracy between different images? Unfortunately, the commonly used RGB color space is not perceptually uniform, which means that equal changes in RGB values do not correspond to equal perceived changes in color. This inconsistency can lead to inaccuracies in color reproduction across various devices. The Lab color space, on the […]
🎚️ Was heraus kommt, wenn UX-Designer sich darüber Gedanken machen, ein möglichst schlechtes Userinterface zu entwickeln …? Diese Seite zeigt absichtlich schreckliche Ideen für Lautstärkeregler – absurd, kreativ - und irgendwie genial. 😄
🔗 Hier entlang: https://www.core77.com/posts/122301/Intentionally-Terrible-UIUX-Designs-for-Worst-Volume-Slider
#UXDesign #InterfaceFail #DesignHumor
Intentionally Terrible UI/UX Designs for Worst Volume Slider - Core77
In the "Programmer Humor" subReddit, an informal and hilarious "Who can make the best volume slider?" contest took place. The original poster kicked it off with this design: They were answered by plenty of other programmers with a wicked grasp of UI/UX evil:
Behold, the hodgepodge of open source icons! 🤯 Dive into a never-ending abyss of license names and pixel sizes, because who doesn't love a side of legal jargon with their clip art? 🎨⚖️ It's like a buffet, but for icons that'll make your eyes glaze over faster than a broken GIF. 😂
https://icon-sets.iconify.design/ #openSourceIcons #legalJargon #clipArt #designHumor #iconBuffet #HackerNews #ngated
Iconify - home of open source icons
Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets
Oh joy, another government-funded typeface that claims to be "strong and neutral"—like Helvetica but with bureaucratic flair and less charisma 🤦♂️. Because nothing screams "innovation" like a font named after a prison sentence. Can't wait to NOT notice this on my next visit to a .gov site! 💼🔒
https://public-sans.digital.gov/ #governmentfont #bureaucraticdesign #typefaceinnovation #Helveticafail #designhumor #fontcritique #HackerNews #ngated
Public Sans
A strong, neutral, open source typeface for text or display.
🚨 The Font Wars: Episode IV - The Empire Strikes Back (In Times New Roman) 🚨 In a shocking twist of fate, the U.S. State Department bravely battled the monstrous forces of
#Calibri, only to find itself lost in the dull embrace of Times New Roman. 😴 Because clearly, the fate of international
#diplomacy hinges on font size and style. 📜✨
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/ #FontWars #StateDepartment #TimesNewRoman #DesignHumor #HackerNews #ngatedTimes New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.
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