Fonts matter
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TL; DW: Son vs. mother regarding repayment of a "loan" he supposedly made to his parents in 2000. There is no written record of the loan agreement until 3 days before the trial. "Smoking gun" document dated 2000 was printed in Calibri — which wasn't designed until 2004 and wasn't available in Word until 2007.
Case OVER: Attorney Spots New Font on "Old" Document – 18:44
— Steve Lehto
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@HardwareGeek Was the son Dan Rather?
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@hungrier I don't recall that he identified the participants by name, but if he did, I'm pretty sure I'd remember the name Dan Rather.
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could be worse, could have been Comic Sans
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@error Nope! thread is
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People should know better by now. This article dates from 2017:
Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers
If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
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@JBert said in Fonts matter:
People should know better by now. This article dates from 2017:
If they knew better, they wouldn't be forgers.
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@LaoC That one is obviously a forgery: if it had really been written when it pretends to have been, it would have used
ſinstead ofseverywhere there.Which has me wondering what
$looks like when written with a long s …
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@Gurth You can also tell it's a fake because an actual scribe would never have made such an obvious mistake as writing
.gobal
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@JBert said in Fonts matter:
People should know better by now. This article dates from 2017:
Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers
If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
They also mention the infamous situation with Dan Rather from 2003
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@hungrier what is the frequency, Kenneth?
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@Zecc said in Fonts matter:
an actual scribe would never have made such an obvious mistake as writing
.gobalHow do you mean? It’s brillant code, if you ask me.
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My favorite font-related annoyance is when TV/Movie/etc. people use the MacOS UI font Chicago as a "computery" font for banners, documents, and such in shows set before the Truetype version was released in 1991. Until then all you had was a 12 point bitmap version.
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@Parody Or have the VGA font on the screen of a computer that isn’t an IBM PC and/or wouldn’t have had a VGA card at the time.
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@Gurth Of course, EGA 8x14 is the One True Computer Font, as any fule kno.
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@Zecc said in Fonts matter:
@Gurth You can also tell it's a fake because an actual scribe would never have made such an obvious mistake as writing
.gobalExactly the other way round. By incorporating this tyop, it generates proof that it is not a simple computer generated print-out of some holy secret messages.
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@Zecc said in Fonts matter:
@Gurth You can also tell it's a fake because an actual scribe would never have made such an obvious mistake as writing
.gobalMust be a Persian Flaw.
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