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Do we really need tags for fonts?

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baconmeh2

Just like there are car nuts who can pinpoint the exact model and year, there's writing nuts too. Handwriting and typefaces can be a fairly memorable part of a post, so I think it's not a bad idea to tag.

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DDFLYo

Main use case is just to find images with those specific fonts. I get that it may not seem that useful since some of them have very few posts, or even just the one. Seems like he's just adding them as he finds them.

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Ylimegirl

Definitely quite a few iconic fonts worth noting. Comic Sans and Papyrus are def noteworthy, along with Impact (specifically allcaps Impact) as well as others. Potentially some more obscure fonts aren't worth it, but I think as long as it's identifiable and notable it doesn't hurt. (Other fonts off the top of my head are Anime Ace, Times New Roman, and Arial. Definitely others I'd recognize but can't immediately name)

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zetsubousensei

I agree with tagging stuff like comic sans or impact since they are often used as a meme, but I see no value in tagging images that are using fonts in a purely utilitarian sense for comics or other text in the image.

Seems like padding.

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ANON TOKYO

zetsubousensei said:

I agree with tagging stuff like comic sans or impact since they are often used as a meme, but I see no value in tagging images that are using fonts in a purely utilitarian sense for comics or other text in the image.

Seems like padding.

+1, very well-known stuff like comic sans, impact or papyrus makes sense, but we don't need to distinguish between every single barely-distinguishable sans serif font.

Looking at the latest 3 as of writing, there's manbow (font) which is definitely worth keeping, and two that are basically just comic sans, which seems unnecessary.

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Ylimegirl

Circling back around, I think generic sans serif fonts or serif fonts are usually individually not notable enough unless they're like… the Big Ones, yknow? Could probably lump them all into a sans serif font or serif font tag if we really care about keeping them.

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zetsubousensei said:

I agree with tagging stuff like comic sans or impact since they are often used as a meme, but I see no value in tagging images that are using fonts in a purely utilitarian sense for comics or other text in the image.

Seems like padding.

+1.

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Mexiguy

zetsubousensei said:

I agree with tagging stuff like comic sans or impact since they are often used as a meme, but I see no value in tagging images that are using fonts in a purely utilitarian sense for comics or other text in the image.

Seems like padding.

+1

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ANON TOKYO

BUR #35308 has been approved by @evazion.

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Bit of a clunky method, but it serves as a vote. The tags im proposing to nuke here seem to be really basic, purely utilitarial, or hardly distinguishable from other known fonts.

This is obviously opinionated, and I think a better solution would be to combine a bunch in "styles" for the very distinctive ones, and get rid of the rest, but it's a start.

Ones I've excluded are:

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GabrielWB

I do want to say though that going from a "Do we need this?" to a BUR vote in less than 24 hours without at the very least trying to include the creator in the conversation to hear their perspective, rubs me a bit in the wrong direction. This isn't just a pet tag. Some real effort went into this.

@mock

Though it's possible that this has been discussed already on the Discord, in which case you may point at me and laugh.

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ANON TOKYO

GabrielWB said:

I do want to say though that going from a "Do we need this?" to a BUR vote in less than 24 hours without at the very least trying to include the creator in the conversation to hear their perspective, rubs me a bit in the wrong direction. This isn't just a pet tag. Some real effort went into this.

Actually, this is mostly because I feel an alternative of "nuke them all" looming, and I wanted to get ahead of specifically that, because more than one or two have some real value.

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