It’s a real shame that the standard communication platforms provide so little typographic customisation. If I want to send someone a message in a thick gothic form, why shouldn’t I be able to?

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@rlamacraft I think it's because those platforms are depending on a certain kind of uniformity to be succesful. If I have to read a different font every time in the timeline, I'll go elsewhere where my sanity is not going to be tested to the limit. 😋

@trinsec that’s what I suspect it mostly is, that and the fact that messaging platforms have evolved from SMS. There’s something personal about handwritten notes, or stylish about different forms

@rlamacraft Not all messaging platforms evolved from SMS though. Mastodon, for example. ;)

If you want real personalized messages, I guess html-email works. :P Or you can attach PDF documents with your stylized content, or even post an image of it. Granted, that's a bit cumbersome. But people do it, so...

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