safe space to dislike coolvetica in

[codl]

if you are unaware, coolvetica is a free font that looks a lot like helvetica bold but with some stunts thrown in. it's "the garry's mod font"

Coolvetica is a scratch-built, sans-serif typeface, inspired by 1970's American logo designs. This was an era where everyone was modifying Helvetica with funky curls, mixed-case and effects. Coolvetica recreates that 1970's custom display lettering look with really tight kerning and funky curls. The tails on the R and a have been left out to allow even tighter spacing. It certainly isn't intended for setting paragraphs of book text—Coolvetica is a pure display typeface, intended for big, funky headings and titles

i hate it with a vengeance. just looking at that lowercase t gives me chills. the kerning gives me claustrophobia. why is q just a g that got fucked up

e: i dislike this font so much that i sometimes see regular helvetica and get a little upset before i realise that it's not coolvetica. one such event is what prompted me to make this thread

[BlueRaccoon]

oh, that q is cursed

[codl]

fun fact about that q, it is kerned to line up with other characters in ways that look interesting but are difficult to read:



of course in english you'll basically only ever see "qu" and that digraph looks like a prank

also as a bonus, here's "qn" vs "qɲ":

[g__]

why is the cross bar on the t a little bit thinner than everything else

[codl]

no coolvetica

[codl]

every time i see coolvetica in the wild i lose 10 composure

[ben]

I thought about coolvetica again

[codl]

I thought about coolvetica again

condolences

[codl]

hey lets talk about good fonts

i changed my default browser and system font to futura the other week and i like computer better now

what are some fonts you like

e: also a friend of mine changed xyr whole twitch channel branding to use futura like 5 days later which was a weird coincidence

[codl]

i have a new enemy. it is the "Rotalic" variant of GT Haptik