have always hated Times New Roman, deeply, passionately.
back in my desktop publishing days ―days when we were constrained to whatever came with the computer and later to bought floppy disks and cds for a handful of custom #fonts―, i switched to Garamond for the serif; limited to titles, quotes & emphasis. for the body, it was first Arial, then Helvetica in all their weights.
these days though, am team Roboto in all its faces. GoogleFonts is the only good remaining at that company…
some people collect rocks, books, boyfriends. i collect #fonts.
in my need to counter my #dyslexia and see what i was publishing, i’ve amassed a collection of hundreds of digital fonts since the 1990s.
when i moved from desktop publishing to web development and learned about #CSS it was like the skies had parted by chanting angels.
my standard for any “word processing” program ―and that includes notepads― is that i must be able to use my personal stylesheet, optimized for my neurodivergence…
for the fucking #ReplyGuys out there: Roboto has serif, sans-serif, monospace and slab. and it was one of the first fully customizable font-faces with the font-flex CSS declaration.
Noto, the fully in-house version of Roboto by Google is a fantastic sans-serif if only because it includes all world alphabets; but i prefer Roboto. am a UTF-8 gal and it’s enough for me.
seriously. i’ve tested & used thousands of fonts since the 1990s…
it’s why i have a personal stylesheet. i don't expect software developers to know shit about fonts, even less about textual (as opposed to graphic) design.
but that's why i have parked my ass these days with Obsydian. i can change MY UI/UX with my own stylesheet.
it’s the same with browsers. am stuck with #Firefox because i can change MY #uiux with my own stylesheet.
if you are a developer who doesn’t think of fonts and stylesheets as an #accessibility issue, then think again…
you cannot foresee all the ways #dyslexia #adhd #astigmatism #blindness are expressed in people. so if you are a developer of interactive text-based apps like blogs and *ahem* microblogs (like Mastodon), give people the chance to adjust their #uiux with their own stylesheets.
mastodon looks completely different on my browser than on android exactly because of what i can do with #Firefox and their #CSS addons like Stylish.
democratization of CSS must be an #accessibility priority.
anyways, fonts. i like them. i collect them. give me Playfair or Baskerville before the death by Times New Roman boredom.
but more importantly, if you’re a software developer, give me the ability to change my #uiux with my own personal stylesheet and choice of #fonts.
that’s true #accessibility
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@blogdiva
Is there a reason why you can't run Firefox for Android?
Firefox is great, for lots of reasons, but browser extensions for using custom styles globally or per-site, like Stylish, are available for all browsers.
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