Mine is mapping. I am a big OpenStreetMap contributor and I have mapped many towns near me that were previously completely unmapped.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    I have a weird obsession with fonts. I love a good, well designed font. How it looks on the screen, how it looks in print. Nothing too gaudy or showy, but a really good League Spartan or Lato Light. (Not a fan of serifs)

    Other than that, normal stuff; 3D modelling, writing, etc…

    My other interest that might fall “outside the norm” is that in University, if I had continued beyond my bachelors my primary focus would have been studying the Bronze Age Collapse, and that topic still fascinates me to this day.

    Edit: Oh…and spreadsheets. There’s no problem in the world that can’t be fixed with a well designed spreadsheet. All problems come down to data sorting.

    • phughes@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I have almost no opinions on specific fonts. Except… I absolutely despise the $ and ¢ symbols in Apple’s San Francisco font. Since it’s the default font I have to look at it a lot.

    • fool@programming.dev
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Oh my God I LOVE FONTS

      Spartan is a bit wide for me (see that w?) but Lato with a good colorscheme is always sexy

      Another thing: if you’re familiar with fonts you can have a weird pseudo-Sherlock funtime guessing how something was made.

      points This book is using Georgia instead of Times New Roman. See how the 9 is low? But the page numbers are Times New Roman because the 9 isn’t low. Was paging in the author’s control?

      and

      font with the light blue shading thing. This club recruitment poster was made in Microsoft Word.

      About serif disdain… what about LaTeX’s serif? :}

    • Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Ayy fellow font enjoyer! I have like 50 GB of fonts, I’m a bit crazy. Honestly, Noto Sans is the greatest font out there. Looks good everywhere

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I like Noto Sans. But as a Linux user it often irks me too, since every…single…language…is included in most distributions; so half of my time finding a nice font that I just installed consists of scrolling past a bajillion Noto variants.