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# Design Notes
Over the years I have grown increasingly tired of looking at the mainstream sans-serif "programming fonts" all days.
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a mis-configured font rendering engine. My personal experience is that Qt is more likely to have out-of-box
good font rendering.
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+# Designer-circle Urban Myth
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+* _There is a "dazzle" effect in modern types_: this seems to have arisen after 2000. Wikipedia cites the earliest mention
+ of this is in Cees W. De Jong et al. 2005; I don't know if they are responsible for this myth or not. Modern types
+ have survived several generations of people, two world wars, facilitated mass literacy, been used from books to train timetables. It
+ certainly does not dazzle anybody before the internet was invented, nor me.
+* _Didone types are not suitable to body text because of high contrast, so body size fonts need to be made sort of non-Didone,
+ non-modern to be readable_: I read this on Wikipedia and from several bloggers, but, to be fair to Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni and
+ many others who are dead and hence unable to make a comment on the internet, the sentence should be rephrased as "many people in the 21st
+ century dislike high contrast fonts in body text." Not even the rephrased sentence is true, though, as the entire mathematics community
+ has decided to use, as their default, Computer Modern, whose 10pt and 12pt still have quite extreme a contrast.