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The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Cognitive Overload of Ligatures

Jared: I'm not sure yet. First thing is that it might take some time. You're gonna have somebody who prefers to literally see equals equals to equal signs next to each other versus an elongated equal sign or whatever that might look like in its literature representation. And you're gonna have some who were immediately turned off because he thought you were replacing but you're not. Nikita: There's a nice comparison with emoji and emoticons. The big win in that case is you don't have to turn your head sideways to actually see what you're trying to emote as the semicolon is necessarily at a 45 degree turn. Jared: In the perfect world, nobody would

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