u/President_Abra

TNR first emerged in the UK for The Times after the typographer Stanley Morison wrote a diss track against the 19th-century-themed typeface that was in use at the time. Thereafter, under Morison, Victor Lardent developed Times New Roman, modelled after certain traditional typefaces (with Plantin as the leading template).

From my limited knowledge, this font was (at least initially) designed as a uniquely Timesean typeface, though it was soon enough released commercially. This allowed non-TheTimes uses, culminating with Microsoft Word making it the default font.

Questions:

1. If Microsoft Word hadn't chosen TNR as their default font, would it look more unique? Or was TNR designed to look anonymous?
2. Why exactly do so many use it (not only The Times; also reports, theses, etc.)? Is it thanks to its traditional-themed design?
3. Do you personally like TNR? I personally don't like it that much (though I don't hate it either); I prefer open-source serif typefaces, like Lora.

For example, if you go to the Latin Extended-D chart and search U+A781, you'll see the annotation:

>voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ]

fully in what I think is some variant of Myriad Light, including the IPA letter [ɬ].

Is there a place (e.g. MyFonts, etc.) to purchase this IPA Myriad font, or is it exclusive to The Unicode Consortium?

The sans-serif typeface from SIL.

Personally, I like it very much. The design is pretty friendly, and it's amazing for linguistics, as well as languages written in Latin or Cyrillic.

The only think I don't like that much is that it doesn't include full Greek (though it does include Greek letters used in maths and IPA).

I'm writing a report, and this is one of the articles that I'm citing. The APA reference (currently without DOI, which I haven't found yet):

Yamagishi, T., Jin, N., & Kiyonari, T. (1999). Bounded generalized reciprocity: Ingroup boasting and ingroup favoritism. Advances in group processes, 16, 161–197.

1. What typeface/family would you choose? Why?
2. Would you ever consider actually using that font as your sole sans? Why, or why not?

In my case:

1. Plex Sans family. It's pretty* well designed, and supports a giant variety of writing systems through individual fonts; they plan to release two more fonts (Telugu and Kannada) this year, and who knows what's next 🍿
2. Almost, were it not for the fact that phonetic letters aren't fully included yet (I'd need them in linguistics). Once they support them, I'd safely make Plex my sole sans-serif family. Otherwise, I could use Tahoma as well; it also supports a pretty wide variety of writing systems, as well as phonetic letters.

*pun intended

My main conlang, Alphan, renders any name with the surname first and then the given name. This was due to the following reasons:

1. There's a significant East Asian (with Japanese and Korean as the top) influence layer, including loanwords that are otherwise not found in Western languages. E.g. unagi ("eel"), from Japanese ウナギ unagi.
2. The desire for uniformity in rendering any name, regardless of language. East Asian languages (as well as Hungarian) are surname-first, unlike most Western languages. Therefore, surname-last names are also "Alphanized". For example, Ludwig Zamenhof → Zamenhof Ludwig.

Now, I feel an issue comes when alphanizing names with the surname "King" (or "Rey", etc.). For example, Stephen King → King Stephen.

The issue is that it sounds like royalty. I've instead thought of replacing King, Rey, etc. with Waŋ (Chinese 王 wáng, "king"; also a surname), leading to e.g. Waŋ Stephen.

Do you think it makes sense this way? Or is "King Stephen" okay as the alphanized form?

A dating coach that I follow on Instagram says "cold-approaching women is for fossils (= those that didn't adapt to the new dating rules). If you wanna find a girlfriend in 2026, dating apps are the way." The wording is mine.

For the record, I (27M, neurodivergent, still single) have long ceased using dating apps. I already had two sextortion cases, and also found a few crypto scammers (though I refused to follow their "adventures" and instead ceased talking to them, since I don't think well of crypto). This was when AI images were hardly a thing (or far worse than they are now). Now that AI images are so common since 2023, I can only have a heightened fear of dating apps. Almost 5 out of 10 profiles (if not more) could use an AI (or stolen) photo.

I know there's reverse search and AI image detectors, though I wouldn't wanna have to make it a ritual whenever I find someone on a dating app. Life ain't that long, so I think it's easier to "do it like an Abra": I "teleport" (read: go to social areas) and use 𝔶𝔢 𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔢 𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔞𝔠𝔥. And no, I don't do it daygame style; I choose environments intended for socialization, like language exchanges.

I was President Abra

After delving into House MD, I'm Resident Abra

https://preview.redd.it/rwynf5nonldh1.png?width=475&format=png&auto=webp&s=8fea9adb8c0c23827b8041f9f83b027e6205f6bb

https://preview.redd.it/mwc1wt4kz6dh1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=f52f2665c849609b66f8d901c419e4c43dc47389

Please don't recommend digital art software, I'm hideous at digital art. Instead, I want a program that offers preset templates and allows customization. Think ComiPo.

So, in my early teens, I used to write stories starring Pokémon, though there were no humans, no gyms, etc.

Instead, individual Pokémon were fully independent, interacting and socializing with each other in ways. They often went on Mario-style adventures.

The regions were my own, and individual Pokémon often featured unique characteristics that made them "them".

So I sent a message to someone I find interesting (we don't follow each other yet). On the chat list, it says the delivery failed. Now, when I hop onto the chat, I see "request sent" instead.

And when I view Instagram chats from Chrome, the chat with them isn't even there.

Is this normal? What must I expect? It may help to know that I had sent an earlier message, though I had to delete it due to errors, and then I sent an improved message.

It's intended for an art project.

The following font is a good example, though I'd like more options, since this font only has one weight.

https://preview.redd.it/s409hvlca2ah1.png?width=501&format=png&auto=webp&s=dde9087a1be88af961a3a403316690d2cce9e55c

If you pay attention, the font's strokes look much more human than those of an ordinary East Asian sans-serif.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk™

like this: https://m.fonts.net.cn/font-44414305407.html

So, I'm starting to write a webtoon-adjacent series of printed short stories, starring a Korean girl intended to represent me.

Now, I've considered making her a cyclops. This would represent the fact that she views the world in a rare way, and focuses intensely on what she desires. This would also make her more distinct.

Even with one eye, she's no monster. She's emphatically soft, and this includes her facial expression, her clothing, her way of addressing others, etc.

Does it sound right to make her a cyclops?