FYI not everyone find 'handwritten' diagramms cute and more importantly sometimes this cuteness actively interfere with reading comperhension, ie this font is quite shitty for me, esp. on the mobile when I need to actively pan and zoom this big diagramm.
[EDIT: I think you are correct, and that it is not as legible on the phone as I thought it was. Using a different font might not fix that, although it's something for me to keep in mind for future blog post diagrams]
I thank you for reading the content.
> FYI not everyone find 'handwritten' diagramms cute and more importantly sometimes this cuteness actively interfere with reading comperhension, ie this font is quite shitty for me, esp. on the mobile when I need to actively pan and zoom this big diagramm.
I understand that not everyone finds this sort of diagram as usable (by which I mean legibility, approachability, memorability and understandability).
By the same token, not everyone finds the usual sort of diagram as usable as this. In my experience, I've found that cartoony/sketched images results in the audience being more receptive to, and remembering more of, the message.
I think this is why this sort of thing is more and more popular these days - it mostly works (not for everyone, obviously).
> on the mobile when I need to actively pan and zoom this big diagramm
I'm sorry about that; I chose an image size that would fit most mobile phones in landscape orientation, and set the fontsize to what I personally could read without my glasses.
For reference, on my mobile, HN text is too tiny for me to read without my glasses, so I was fairly sure that, if I could read it with no glasses on, it should be large enough on most screens for most people.
> In my experience, I've found that cartoony/sketched images results in the audience being more receptive to, and remembering more of, the message.
Subjectively, I'm inclined to agree. Somehow the "sketched" diagrams just seem more approachable, at least up to a certain complexity: that's why tools like Excalidraw have replaced something like LibreOffice Draw for when I need to create a diagram, at least outside of professional goals.
Fonts are still difficult, though. Excalidraw's "handwritten" font is a bit too hard to read, but most of the sans fonts out there don't mesh well with the diagram style otherwise.
Thankfully there's probably tools out there that support custom fonts with little issues and one can probably find one easily.
I see your edit an.. sorry, I'm on the mobile so I would try to be terse:
This font is quite awful, if you need a good hw font - look for what manga scanlators use, and this is quite serious here , those guys spend up to 20 years to hone their skill. In short you you need way more height per glyph.
Regarding the d. Itself: it's good enough on the desktop, it is too big on the mobile. It can be reorg. To be more
I did share it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048276, but it didn't get many upvotes. Will try only one more time in a month or so as I don't really want to spam HN.