Thankful to be connected to Glowforge

gewubs · January 23, 2019, 3:19am

I just want to post a note to all the amazing people in the Glowforge community. After a short read on
reddit, I was shocked by the toxic atmosphere there. I have never seen that in this forum. Good on everyone - let’s keep it that way.

evansd2 · January 23, 2019, 3:23am

Toxic at reddit in general, or something gf related in reddit?

gewubs · January 23, 2019, 3:25am

Hi yes, Glowforge related in my short read, but I was out of there after 2 minutes. Wanted to say how much I appreciate the friendly tone here.

evansd2 · January 23, 2019, 4:07am

Sure we are friendly… until you post a project that uses papyrus. Then it’s a dogpile.

Jules · January 23, 2019, 4:14am

Or Comic Sans.

brokendrum · January 23, 2019, 5:13am

rbtdanforth · January 23, 2019, 5:46am

I was wondering if anyone had tried to make papyrus paper and cut it on a Glowforge?

rpegg · January 23, 2019, 2:12pm

I will intentionally use those fonts just to irritate the designer wannabees that let others influence them. There are real technical reasons not to use those fonts in the print industry. But there are likely many dozens of other fonts that are worse from a design point.

shop · January 23, 2019, 2:26pm

there are real design reasons not to use them.

not “never ever,” but rarely do people use them where they fit the designs. they are limited functionality fonts that get used “just because” a lot.

ca_worth · January 23, 2019, 2:44pm

Just thankful fonts don’t trigger me

mpipes · January 23, 2019, 3:49pm

I have the same ill feelings regarding Helvetica but not because of its design, simply because of its overuse by corporate committee.

However I also hate all the swoopy pinterest “name sign” fonts people are using these days, but it’s a trend that will fade eventually (hopefully).

bkressley · January 23, 2019, 4:06pm

Slightly for me, Kerning throws me over the top though

Kerning

Jules · January 23, 2019, 4:13pm

This.

shop · January 23, 2019, 4:20pm

bad fonts, bad kerning, poor line spacing… all hazards of two years of typography in college and 20+ years of typesetting.

i’ve even made my wife into a movie credits critic and she sometimes hates me for it.

mrinken · January 23, 2019, 4:51pm

Yes!

Xabbess · January 23, 2019, 5:29pm

The Shadow knows (not all are old enough to remember this)…and the font police know.

henryhbk · January 23, 2019, 8:19pm

But of course (in PRU days I would pretty much shove any non-chloride based object into the GF)…

rpegg · January 23, 2019, 10:36pm

Wow. Thinking that if folks have so much passion about how others use a font that no one should have the time to argue politics. They must be uncultured and unrefined.

system · February 25, 2019, 12:36am

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