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True. Popular books being read by millions of people have no reviews. That’s why I’m on the LibraryThing now.

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Oh, it’ll be easy! Everything I’m about to explain is written by its authors in the Microsoft note.

• The first and most important thing is the character line thickness. It’s almost the same everywhere.
• The second is “crisp-looking shapes and wide characters”. The gap between the characters is wider than in Aptos.
• The third is sharper lettering and fewer curlicues.

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Look at the characters, for example, “a”, “e”, “g”. They have bulk shapes with a minimum of lines compared to Aptos. And now for my personal reasoning.

What is the most common case of reading the folk will have? It’s lack of light or twilight (subway, auto, office, home room, etc.). It’s a small screen size (smartphone or laptop). It’s a low PPI. This is the distance of 20-35 cm, or about a meter, to the screen. These are eyesight problems and astigmatism. These are the points (and more!) you must consider when creating a font.

Here’s my example. I have pretty good eyesight and a little astigmatism (only need to wear glasses when working long hours). I mostly surf the internet using a 17" laptop. I sit a meter away from the screen. That said, I have good illumination.

While using serif fonts, my eyes get tired after hours of reading. This is because astigmatism causes characters to have a subtle shadow at the edges of the lines (if there are pixel artifacts on display, it doubles the effect!). So fonts like the EB Garamond are generally unreadable for people like me.

Also, the brain needs a fraction of a second to figure out what the character is. E.g. the Tenorite’s “a” and the Aptos’ “a”. I don’t confuse it with anything else when looking at the Tenorite’s “a” and it goes much smoother while reading. The characters don’t blend into one mess for me.

As the authors said, they created a font “comfortable to read at small sizes onscreen”. If it’s comfortable on small screens, it will be the same on larger screens. On a 32" screen, almost all fonts will be OK. I could increase the font size on the small screen, but then it would be uncomfortable to read because of the smaller amount of content.

Based on studies, the better the font reads, the worse we are at memorizing information. But there’s not a lot of actually significant information on the Internet, and I do more writing than reading. So that’s not my point.

Thanks for a recommendation of Comic Neue from one old Reddit’s thread. It’s a wonderful font for reading in low reading environments. Seems Tenorite has replaced it for me, as it looks more common and has thicker outlines.

P.S. This is just my own geek standpoint, I didn’t/am not in the typography business.

I fell in love with Tenorite.

If we want to know where any form of society is on the political spectrum (left or right), we need to answer one question: what’s the state role in society? The weaker the state, the more to the left on the spectrum. The stronger the state, the more to the right the formation is. In addition, we can also differentiate between formations by the economic form of society. These two points will give us an exhaustive answer.

Examples:

• Anarchism is no state and no economic formation. Hence, it’s an ultra-leftist faction.
• Communism is no state and no commercial production. Hence, it’s an ultra-leftist faction.
• Libertarianism is no state and free market. Hence, it’s an ultra-leftist faction.
• Socialism is weak state and no commercial production. Hence, it’s a left-wing faction.
• Conservatism is strongly state and monopoly/oligopoly market. Hence, it’s a right-wing faction.
• Fascism is strongly state and state capitalism. Hence, it’s an ultra-right faction.

There are occasional exceptions to these definitions. For instance, at the beginning of socialism there can be a strong state, that must then disappear. The USSR was like that, but it didn’t get to complete socialism.

So liberalism is a centrist ideology. For some topics it’s left of center, for some topics it’s right of center.

Wow! This is the first time I’ve heard about Knaben Database, but it looks handy. Thanks a bunch for the recommendation.