Dutch Standard AlphabetsMar 20

This brand-new brickwork irritates me immensely. Why simulate a curve with straight segments when you could make it truly round?

It brings me back to the early days of digital printing, when @eWalthert complained about how awful printed type looked: curves rendered as polygons instead of smooth outlines.

Show threadEdgar Walthert Mar 20
@dutchstandardalphabets That was one particular case.
HP pushed a new firmware to all Indigo’s that has terrible PostScript emulations. Around 2017.
The printers have been dumbfounded, because they had no idea why this happened.
That was not yet #enshittification but just classic corner cutting and revenue optimization on the costs of quality.
Show threadKris SowersbyMar 20
@eWalthert @dutchstandardalphabets Oh, is that why type printed on indigo has jagged outlines?
Show threadEdgar Walthert 

@klim @dutchstandardalphabets I printed some business cards in 2017 at the same printer as always. Suddenly the outlines were shitty and jagged.
They had no idea why and how to fix it.
So I started to investigate, figured that other HP Indigo’s also turned to shit and finally had a Dutch HP technician on the line, that admitted that they pushed a new firmware to all machines, that all are hardwired to the internet.

The good news is, TTF fonts still look ok’ish.

Mar 20 at 10:40pmWeb
Show threadKris SowersbyMar 21
@eWalthert @dutchstandardalphabets Man, that’s still rough as guts. Such a shame, indigo is a viable, economic process
Show threadEdgar Walthert Mar 21
@klim @dutchstandardalphabets Oh sorry, that was misleading. The image shows CFF OpenType fonts. True type look better, but I have no image.