89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2014
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right back to the worst episode ever |
| 0:04.0 | It's gonna be four hours long. Well, now I'm gonna wrap it up soon |
| 0:09.3 | But it's summertime I need long episodes |
| 0:13.0 | You know, didn't I do a two-parter with you last time? Yeah, son of that. I think we're incapable of making one that's under two hours |
| 0:18.8 | Oh, well, maybe we'll do that again. I wanted to talk about custom fonts in con and yeah |
| 0:24.8 | Overcast and you're using a font called con course |
| 0:27.2 | By Matthew |
| 0:30.8 | Butterick yep, love it great font face. I remember talking to you about this font. Oh my god. It might have been a year ago |
| 0:39.2 | I remember you just like running it up the flagpole like hey, what do you think? |
| 0:44.9 | About this and I was like oh my god, that is beautiful |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, I want to about about last summer. Yeah about a year ago |
| 0:52.3 | I was looking at tons of fonts for overcast looking at various interface fonts |
| 0:57.1 | With Insta paper. I was all using I was using almost all |
| 1:01.0 | Serif fonts for all the reading faces |
| 1:03.3 | There were some sand serif ones that were more popular, but I always like the serif ones better |
| 1:07.7 | When they were large like on an iPad and everything it felt like serif was somehow the proper solution for you know reading text |
| 1:15.6 | It should be in serifs because serifs are old and fancy |
| 1:19.4 | And they could like print |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah exactly I kind of got burnt out on them though and |
| 1:25.9 | Whenever I would do I would design something with a serif font |
| 1:28.6 | I would always think it should look better |
| 1:32.3 | But then it didn't actually look better and it didn't work as well on screens or it looked good big |
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