Trebuchet MS is a truly excellent font and it almost justifies Microsoft's entire existence
@kalium Trebuchet MS is the sensible blouse of fonts. It is unexciting and inoffensive and only weird people have strong opinions about it. It is almost definitely my favourite UI font. It's readable. It's distinctive. It's one of the handful of common core fonts that's dyslexia-friendly.
It was designed by the guy who made Comic Sans and he put a huge amount of work into making fonts that were really good at A Thing, it seems.
@kalium I wonder how many font designers are able to have that be their only job and not live in poverty... I imagine there must be at least a dozen?
But I'd be surprised if there'd be more than a hundred...
@Tobi @kalium the comic sans guy gives talks these days as far as I know. Most of the font designers I see online seem to be text-focussed graphic designers in general. The existence of the Wikipedia List of Type Designers doesn't exactly bode well for the job market of the field.