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I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page.

"OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy

“A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe

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I think all the testimonials are fake, if this wasn't clear to everyone. I thought they might be real at first but none of them exist. I actually thought that was kind of shitty to do, since they use real companies and media outlets.

(I don't really follow fonts but I do know there is a subculture crazy about them, so I thought it could be theoretically possible that people would write reviews of them).

I clicked the Fast Company one because the quote seemed most fake to me and it was a real article. I learned that the underlying problem here is that eye charts only have like 10 letters on them, and this font attempts to guess the rest so you have a full alphabet.

You can click them, they link to their sources.

> "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."

- the link under discussion

Link rot is alive and well... unlike their links. https://web.archive.org/web/20190430201350/https://twitter.c...

It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a company on the landing page.

Same energy as:

>I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product

I'm Commander Sheppard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.

I work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.

It links to a tweet. I get a "not found" error there but that's, like, 78% of the Xitter links I click on ever since Musk went full Nazi.

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