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Yes the crazy sci-fi font is hard to read, but I have to give them props for being unique. I even like the grammatical mistakes, it's so different than the ultra-polished stuff we usually see here. This project has personality!

The code font is more readable than the rest of the website: https://artanis.dev/scheme.html

Dot matrix printer that's low in ink

Good thing there's reader mode, with a nice and large default system font

Oh, I thought it was quite fun, and still found it easily readable

Looks amazing with JS turned off!

It looks like the DUNE font:

https://www.dafont.com/dune-rise.font

That is horrible.

I did not see it at first as I had JS off. Once I allowed JS the font loaded and .. yuck.

If you zoom in it's pretty cool how each letter is a matrix of squares, but agreed - very challenging and distracting to try and read when the end result looks interlaced.

Agree, had to pop this into chrome devtools to get through the page:

let newStyle = document.createElement('style'); newStyle.innerHTML = 'body { font-family: "Verdana"; background-color: #eee}'; document.head.appendChild(newStyle);

I've got a dot matrix printer somewhere in a box that could reprint that site with all the dot lines, if I manage to find it and connect to a computer. I can't remember if it has a serial or parallel port.

Oh, that's terrible. There's a reason we don't have dot matrix printers anymore.

it would be slightly better if it were black background and green ink

for me zooming out to 67% worked fine

At first I thought Artanis was a new font! And even reading the text I couldn't shake the impression that they were offering me this weird font with each character cut up by horizontal lines.

When I zoomed in it looks kind of cute. Maybe I should download the Artanis font after all.

I know we're not supposed to go off on website stuff (per guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage") but jfc who thought this design was even remotely a good idea?

I don't see any unreadable parts and found it very readable. I guess yet again saved by not downloading random web fonts onto my machine or not running random JS. Yay! Blocking unnecessary traffic for the win!

You're not as wrong as you think you are.

"Have you ever said my name backwards? There is a strange music to it" - Artanis (SC2 LOTV)

If you just want to try it out you can compile it from source, see <https://www.gnu.org/software/artanis/manual/manual.html#org3...>.

You can use guix on any GNU/Linux distro afaik. If you create a guix profile for a project, it should be fairly simple to use that to install artanis. With guix time-machine you can also make reproducible setups, to ensure you can run your stuff years later.

But the most basic use of installing artanis in the default profile should also work.

Where do you see the difficulties installing artanis with guix?

It's available on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/artanis (bit outdated though)

    ;; NOTE: I won't encourage using Racket but if you really want,
    ;;       I still give you some hints in this tutorial. But the
    ;;       tutorial will base on Guile and RnRs.

https://artanis.dev/scheme.html

Perhaps it's time for an eye exam?

I'm sure this web framework will have many zealots.