Cat HicksFeb 27

I enjoy when using tech tools on my extremely femme-gendered hobby projects makes them feel out-of-genre important

What an interesting way to trigger some stereotype incongruence and realize how much "tech weight" we give things just by all these relatively shallow signifiers

Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Look at that font. She must have a hacker brain
Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Are there things that make work "look Technical" to you? Are there secret signifiers you have become aware of? I love hearing people notice these things
Show threadRick OsborneFeb 27

@grimalkina I am starting a new job and had to read a bunch of starting paperwork, all of which used the Calibri font face. Which has a ton of subtext, regardless of what the paperwork actually says, about the company culture.

Like, say, imagine that same paperwork in Computer Modern, from LaTeX, and the very different signals that would send about the company.

Obviously, we love to make fun of Comic Sans or Papyrus, but even the very boring default font faces do send signals.

Show threadCat HicksFeb 27

@ricko Rick you have to tell us what those signals are saying to you because some people* don't know!!

*me, although maybe if I tested myself on implicit associations I would, just don't know fonts that well of the top of my head

Show threadJenniferplusplus
@grimalkina @ricko Calibri is the default font in google docs, and that's the logo on the bag of assumptions I gathered from this
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Show threadсерафими многоꙮчитїиFeb 27
@jenniferplusplus @grimalkina @ricko I feel like Computer Modern is almost like a form of costly signalling: the producer can get a document out in LaTeX, is aware of that, knows some arcane syntax despite that not being their main job, perhaps published in technical fields