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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

Website: https://www.willtirando.com.br/

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/4411483

Fonts rule


Translation:

  • Panel 1: Doctor Word
  • Panel 2: Doctor: "What is the problem?"
  • Panel 3: Patient: "There's something wrong with my voice."
  • Panel 4: Doctor: "Sure. I'll give you some pills."
  • Panel 6: Patient: "Thanks, Doctor!"
  • Panel 7: Doctor: "Next!"
  • Panel 8: Next patient: "Good morning, doctor!"
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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 164 points 6 days ago

I like how I could understand the comic without the translation even though I don't know Portuguese.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 33 points 6 days ago

It kinda makes it funnier to me for some reason.

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago

Bomdia!

Bomdia to you too my manos

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The bomdia dot combia!

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Oddly enough, I don't know a word of Portuguese, but do know some Spanish. However, I had to read it, read the translation, and then look at it again to figure it out because I'm a bit of an idiot. All I could think was "What kind of drug is Arial 12pt?".

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

My guess for proxima was "approach" in "come in" Sense. But yeah, it was nice getting the joke even without the language

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago
[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

"Proximo" (or "proxima" which is the version of the word use for females and, since in Latin languages there is no "the" and everything is either "masculine" or "feminine", objects which are treated as "feminine") is actually slightly tricky when translated to English because it means the "next" or "following" something in a list (hence here the doctor literally saying "Next!" in the very same way as you would in English) but it also means something that's "near" or "close (to)" but not actually "next (to)".

It's one of those funny things you often find between languages in that a word in two languages means the same kind of thing (in this case related to distance between things) but the intensity/amount of the property it's about isn't quite the same in both languages, which can be tricky to figure out when you're first learning a new language as what's seemingly a simple translation turns out to have quite a bit of subtlety.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It would still be understandable if the only text were the odd font speech and the Arial on the bottle.

What kind of health care prescribes Arial over Helvetica?

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 19 points 6 days ago

A country with a struggling free healthcare system, perhaps.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago

Arial is a proprietary Microsoft font, which is expensive to license if you want to distribute it yourself; I actually think it works even on that level (doctors giving you name brands instead of the cheaper generic (open source) option)

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I mean, Helvetica is also proprietary, like the majority of typefaces. Iirc there are some metrically-compatible open clones, though.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

DejaVu Sans πŸ’ͺ

I once created a WYSIWYG (also the dumbest acronym for what is essentially a word processor), and we got in trouble for embedding Arial and other fonts into PDFs and documents. Had to change it so that we don't embed fonts anymore.

If you ever wonder why PDFs and other documents look subtly or unsubtly different or even break completely depending on what computer you open it on; that's why. Personally I think it's stupid. You should be able to embed fonts into the document. It's not like people are going to extract it from the document and install it or whatever.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you mean that DejaVu Sans is an analogue of Helvetica/Arial, that's not so. The DejaVu fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera, and the Sans variation is wider than Helvetica. It's also somewhat humanist, as opposed to Helvetica's strictly grotesque look.

Liberation Sans and Nimbus Sans seem to be the best-known open-licensed metrically-compatible analogues of Helvetica, although Liberation doesn't recreate the look. Nimbus is also the basis for FreeSans.

As for embedding fonts, afaiu it depends on the license.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Font law is like a whole thing. I was surprised how strictly licenced even some free fonts can be. I have a memory of carefully reading each licence document to see what I'm allowed to do with it.

I prefer DejaVu for some reason over Liberation. Well, actually OpenDyslexic is my real favourite typeface; but everyone else hates it when I use it in emails.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well, Liberation Sans is nothing much to look at. I myself prefer humanist typefaces, particularly with noticeable variation in stroke widths. I'd use Rosario everywhere I can, only its kerning is wonky.

These days font marketplaces on the web spell out the allowed use for each typeface quite clearly, so I guess it's a good thing we're out of the dark ages of font law.

I have extracted proprietary fonts from websites cause I thought they looked neat.

Now all my websites use OFL fonts and distribute the license file right next to the woff2 files.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's probably the cheap generic.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Eh? Perhaps I'm missing the joke, but Arial is a clone of Helvetica, which latter has been around since 1957.

Maybe you're referring to Helvetica Neue, idk.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're probably right. I haven't touched a windows in so many years that from what I remembered Arial is a known thing, but I don't remember Helvetica being a thing.

I'll trust your assessment.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Helvetica was very popular for its unapologetically modernist and neutral look, such that its overuse was criticized even before Arial swooped in β€” it was particularly widespread in corporate and government design. Microsoft cloned Helvetica as Arial so as to not pay for the licensing, but Arial is disliked by typeface designers for details which elude me (just like other MS fonts). Of course, Arial dominated home and office printing and web design ever since, as it was readily available. Apple licenses Helvetica proper and ships it in MacOS.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

One that has gizmos and gadgets aplenty

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

I know absolutely no Portuguese, but that was totally readable. This artist could put duolingo out of business.

[-] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 26 points 6 days ago

I guess if you know enough Spanish, Portuguese kinda just comes off as poor spelling / grammar, with a few nonsense words thrown in

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is very easy for those who know Portuguese to learn Spanish and vice-versa because the grammar is the same and most words are the same.

However the spoken Portuguese from Portugal has a very strong accent (which makes it sound almost like an Eastern European language for those not from EE, unlike Brasilian Portuguese) which makes it harder for Spanish-speakers to understand.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was confused by the translation as I would have thought "bom dia" would mean "good day" rather than "good morning". I looked it up and apparently although it does literally mean "good day," people will look at you funny if you say it any time other than morning as that's how it's actually used. Interesting!

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Same as English "tonight" isn't at night but in the evening.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

"Tonight" means any time between when it's dark outside and going to bed to me.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Which gets dicier the further you go away from the equator.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

To me, coming from a different language, it means when people are in bed. So"strolling around the block at night" is totally different to "in the evening".

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

That applies when you're wishing someone a good night or good evening. Night is for when they're going to bed. Same in German, I believe, guten Abend and gute Nacht.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago

If it was communism everyone would be prescribed Monospace

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 10 points 6 days ago

Who remembers Broderbund Print Shop and the bad fonts it unleashed upon the world?

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I kinda remember making banners with the z-fold dot matrix printer paper, but mosty I remember MS-Word's WordArt, which I think is the BomDia here.

Nowadays, the desktop publishing situation is grim. MS Publisher is being retired soon, pushing people to shitty online template-based solutions.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Canva is the worst thing to happen in a long time and everybody is using it. I have to do docs at work sometimes, I ended up building html templates and have a script that prints it out into a neat looking PDF. All that just so I could avoid another bloated cumbersome web app where you have to pay for the simplest of things. I dream of the day that company fails and burns to the ground.

Affinity is pretty good and free. Belongs to one of the pushers of shitty online templates these days, though.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Just a matter of time before it's gone or enshittified, given its owner. Make sure to keep it backed up in a way that you can reinstall it without any server authentication, and I'd also freeze automatic updates/

I currently have it running in a Windows VM not connected to the Internet, so that should be fine. I also think that they are using it as a sales funnel towards their premium subscription, which of course might mean that more and more features get locked behind that.

Currently it's just the AI Features and Templates, which doesn't affect me as a user.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Companies can and do issue updates that bricks your device until you pay them, ie ransom. You're at even greater risk with software.

[-] zout@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago

I'm surprised MS Publisher is still around to be honest. I haven't heard about it in about two decades.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago

Obrigado OP. That was funny!

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Is doctors distributing medicine legal in Brazil?

[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In jokes, comics and other alike media, doctors regularly represent the full healthcare system, accuracy would make the comic unwieldy and very unfunny, thereby defeating the purpose of said comic.

[-] morto@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

It's common for laboratories to give them free samples, and they just distribute it. It's more common with private doctors. In the public system, they will give you a prescription and depending on which meds, you can grab them for free in authorized pharmacies.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

In Germany, too, a lot of doctors (in the public system) regularly hand out samples they got from pharmaceutical companies. I've heard it's the only reason for some doctors to meet representatives from such companies.

[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Americans: … wat?

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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