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[–] sxan@midwest.social 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The most beautiful font ever. Although, this Metropolis is pretty nice, too.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Love the lowercase, hate the uppercase. Look at what they did to my boy B.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really love the numbers, though.

I've discovered that it's a horrible screen font, though: far too spindly to be easily readable. I still use it, but I have to make it larger than usual and bold, and it's still a little hard to make out sometimes.

Oh, what we sacrifice for aesthetics.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

0 seems a bit too indistinguishable from O, but otherwise I'm also a big fan of the numbers.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

I think the font heavily reuses glyphs. 0 probably literally is the same glyph as O. I'm positive 9 is just a rotated 6 (I guess that's pretty common, although it's really obvious in Poiret).

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What're you looking at?? His gut?? He's working on it!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have the urge to drink martini and rewatch The Great Gatsby.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And Jeeves & Wooster, and Poirot.

Poirot is obviously the inspiration here, in style and name.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

actually disappointed that poirot doesn't have that font

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has an art nouveau feeling.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

I'd say Art Deco, Art Nouveau's successor, but obviously there aren't fine lines between them.

When I think Art Nouveau, I think wavy, curvy script; everything was just a little psychedelic in Art Nouveau.

1920's, in any case.