It’s a real shame that the standard communication platforms provide so little typographic customisation. If I want to send someone a message in a thick gothic form, why shouldn’t I be able to?
@trinsec that’s what I suspect it mostly is, that and the fact that messaging platforms have evolved from SMS. There’s something personal about handwritten notes, or stylish about different forms
@rlamacraft Not all messaging platforms evolved from SMS though. Mastodon, for example. ;)
If you want real personalized messages, I guess html-email works. :P Or you can attach PDF documents with your stylized content, or even post an image of it. Granted, that's a bit cumbersome. But people do it, so...
@rlamacraft You can use 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 style letters from unicode (inteded for math typsetting) if that's what you mean. Modern text encodings can encode lots of different things.
@swiley yeah I didn’t realise even Braille is widely supported until yesterday where someone had made some art using it on Gemini
@rlamacraft I guess this more closely matches the original intentions of message exchange on the web: sending information and allowing the reader to view it in whatever form they like (great for accessibility and personal preference). It’s a shame for creativity though.
@rlamacraft I think it's because those platforms are depending on a certain kind of uniformity to be succesful. If I have to read a different font every time in the timeline, I'll go elsewhere where my sanity is not going to be tested to the limit. 😋