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This is not intellectually interesting. It doesn’t gratify ones intellectual curiosity.

Fonts and typography are very often a side interest of hackers. They're certainly one of mine. There's just this weird realization that squiggles on paper or a screen translate so easily into meaning in our head; in fact, the creation of writing might be seen as some kind of hack of our brains. Also, there is a lot of technology and technique in how letters are designed and laid out on a page, all of which tickles my intellectual curiosity.

Okay, this page is mostly just a bit of fun. But there's seriousness behind it.

Could you click on all images containing a street crossing, please?

Well, your assertion is trivially disproven: It does mine.

Agreed. Someone made a weird font, congrats. Artistic curiosity maybe, but putting this on HN really is a big stretch.

I was delighted to see this on the front page. Letter forms fascinate me and I enjoy playful explorations of the topic. They sit neatly between formal and informal systems and shed light on human cognition.

I'm very glad you're not the gatekeeper of what's here and what isn't.

I'm very glad most of the HN content does indeed satisfy more narrow criteria than "it could be interesting to someone".

> "it could be interesting to someone".

Nobody is saying that. HN content typically caters to a prticular kind of geeky intellectual curiosity - that I think often has broader interests than you're giving it credit for.

As someone else pointed out this post would fit nicely into Douglas Hoftadter's Metamagical Themas - a book with impeccable geek credentials.

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