Website: https://www.willtirando.com.br/
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Fonts rule
Translation:
- Panel 1: Doctor Word
- Panel 2: Doctor: “What is the problem?”
- Panel 3: Patient: “There’s something wrong with my voice.”
- Panel 4: Doctor: “Sure. I’ll give you some pills.”
- Panel 6: Patient: “Thanks, Doctor!”
- Panel 7: Doctor: “Next!”
- Panel 8: Next patient: “Good morning, doctor!”
I know absolutely no Portuguese, but that was totally readable. This artist could put duolingo out of business.
I like how I could understand the comic without the translation even though I don’t know Portuguese.
It kinda makes it funnier to me for some reason.
Bomdia!
Bomdia to you too my manos
The bomdia dot combia!
Oddly enough, I don’t know a word of Portuguese, but do know some Spanish. However, I had to read it, read the translation, and then look at it again to figure it out because I’m a bit of an idiot. All I could think was “What kind of drug is Arial 12pt?”.
It would still be understandable if the only text were the odd font speech and the Arial on the bottle.
My guess for proxima was “approach” in “come in” Sense. But yeah, it was nice getting the joke even without the language
“next”
“Proximo” (or “proxima” which is the version of the word use for females and, since in Latin languages there is no “the” and everything is either “masculine” or “feminine”, objects which are treated as “feminine”) is actually slightly tricky when translated to English because it means the “next” or “following” something in a list (hence here the doctor literally saying “Next!” in the very same way as you would in English) but it also means something that’s “near” or “close (to)” but not actually “next (to)”.
It’s one of those funny things you often find between languages in that a word in two languages means the same kind of thing (in this case related to distance between things) but the intensity/amount of the property it’s about isn’t quite the same in both languages, which can be tricky to figure out when you’re first learning a new language as what’s seemingly a simple translation turns out to have quite a bit of subtlety.
What kind of health care prescribes Arial over Helvetica?
A country with a struggling free healthcare system, perhaps.
It’s probably the cheap generic.
Arial is a proprietary Microsoft font, which is expensive to license if you want to distribute it yourself; I actually think it works even on that level (doctors giving you name brands instead of the cheaper generic (open source) option)
I mean, Helvetica is also proprietary, like the majority of typefaces. Iirc there are some metrically-compatible open clones, though.
DejaVu Sans 💪
I once created a WYSIWYG (also the dumbest acronym for what is essentially a word processor), and we got in trouble for embedding Arial and other fonts into PDFs and documents. Had to change it so that we don’t embed fonts anymore.
If you ever wonder why PDFs and other documents look subtly or unsubtly different or even break completely depending on what computer you open it on; that’s why. Personally I think it’s stupid. You should be able to embed fonts into the document. It’s not like people are going to extract it from the document and install it or whatever.
If you mean that DejaVu Sans is an analogue of Helvetica/Arial, that’s not so. The DejaVu fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera, and the Sans variation is wider than Helvetica. It’s also somewhat humanist, as opposed to Helvetica’s strictly grotesque look.
Liberation Sans and Nimbus Sans seem to be the best-known open-licensed metrically-compatible analogues of Helvetica, although Liberation doesn’t recreate the look. Nimbus is also the basis for FreeSans.
As for embedding fonts, afaiu it depends on the license.
Font law is like a whole thing. I was surprised how strictly licenced even some free fonts can be. I have a memory of carefully reading each licence document to see what I’m allowed to do with it.
I prefer DejaVu for some reason over Liberation. Well, actually OpenDyslexic is my real favourite typeface; but everyone else hates it when I use it in emails.
Well, Liberation Sans is nothing much to look at. I myself prefer humanist typefaces, particularly with noticeable variation in stroke widths. I’d use Rosario everywhere I can, only its kerning is wonky.
These days font marketplaces on the web spell out the allowed use for each typeface quite clearly, so I guess it’s a good thing we’re out of the dark ages of font law.
I have extracted proprietary fonts from websites cause I thought they looked neat.
Now all my websites use OFL fonts and distribute the license file right next to the woff2 files.
Helveltica is too new.
Eh? Perhaps I’m missing the joke, but Arial is a clone of Helvetica, which latter has been around since 1957.
Maybe you’re referring to Helvetica Neue, idk.
You’re probably right. I haven’t touched a windows in so many years that from what I remembered Arial is a known thing, but I don’t remember Helvetica being a thing.
I’ll trust your assessment.
Helvetica was very popular for its unapologetically modernist and neutral look, such that its overuse was criticized even before Arial swooped in — it was particularly widespread in corporate and government design. Microsoft cloned Helvetica as Arial so as to not pay for the licensing, but Arial is disliked by typeface designers for details which elude me (just like other MS fonts). Of course, Arial dominated home and office printing and web design ever since, as it was readily available. Apple licenses Helvetica proper and ships it in MacOS.
One that has gizmos and gadgets aplenty
I was confused by the translation as I would have thought “bom dia” would mean “good day” rather than “good morning”. I looked it up and apparently although it does literally mean “good day,” people will look at you funny if you say it any time other than morning as that’s how it’s actually used. Interesting!
Same as English “tonight” isn’t at night but in the evening.
“Tonight” means any time between when it’s dark outside and going to bed to me.
Which gets dicier the further you go away from the equator.
To me, coming from a different language, it means when people are in bed. So"strolling around the block at night" is totally different to “in the evening”.
That applies when you’re wishing someone a good night or good evening. Night is for when they’re going to bed. Same in German, I believe, guten Abend and gute Nacht.
I guess if you know enough Spanish, Portuguese kinda just comes off as poor spelling / grammar, with a few nonsense words thrown in
It is very easy for those who know Portuguese to learn Spanish and vice-versa because the grammar is the same and most words are the same.
However the spoken Portuguese from Portugal has a very strong accent (which makes it sound almost like an Eastern European language for those not from EE, unlike Brasilian Portuguese) which makes it harder for Spanish-speakers to understand.
Obrigado OP. That was funny!
If it was communism everyone would be prescribed Monospace
Who remembers Broderbund Print Shop and the bad fonts it unleashed upon the world?
I kinda remember making banners with the z-fold dot matrix printer paper, but mosty I remember MS-Word’s WordArt, which I think is the BomDia here.
Nowadays, the desktop publishing situation is grim. MS Publisher is being retired soon, pushing people to shitty online template-based solutions.
Affinity is pretty good and free. Belongs to one of the pushers of shitty online templates these days, though.
Just a matter of time before it’s gone or enshittified, given its owner. Make sure to keep it backed up in a way that you can reinstall it without any server authentication, and I’d also freeze automatic updates/
I currently have it running in a Windows VM not connected to the Internet, so that should be fine. I also think that they are using it as a sales funnel towards their premium subscription, which of course might mean that more and more features get locked behind that.
Currently it’s just the AI Features and Templates, which doesn’t affect me as a user.
Companies can and do issue updates that bricks your device until you pay them, ie ransom. You’re at even greater risk with software.
Canva is the worst thing to happen in a long time and everybody is using it. I have to do docs at work sometimes, I ended up building html templates and have a script that prints it out into a neat looking PDF. All that just so I could avoid another bloated cumbersome web app where you have to pay for the simplest of things. I dream of the day that company fails and burns to the ground.
I’m surprised MS Publisher is still around to be honest. I haven’t heard about it in about two decades.
Is doctors distributing medicine legal in Brazil?
In jokes, comics and other alike media, doctors regularly represent the full healthcare system, accuracy would make the comic unwieldy and very unfunny, thereby defeating the purpose of said comic.
It’s common for laboratories to give them free samples, and they just distribute it. It’s more common with private doctors. In the public system, they will give you a prescription and depending on which meds, you can grab them for free in authorized pharmacies.
In Germany, too, a lot of doctors (in the public system) regularly hand out samples they got from pharmaceutical companies. I’ve heard it’s the only reason for some doctors to meet representatives from such companies.
Americans: … wat?
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