Malaya's Timeless Design
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The other day I was discussing with a friend what would happen if there wasn't any need to work at jobs anymore, and whether people would be able to find fulfilment in their lives.
I think there would be so many new areas of knowledge being explored that we can't even imagine it. In my opinion, people don't find meaning, they create it, and they have an endless capacity for it.
I think covid was a good example of this. So many people took up a new hobby or tried something new.
Your optimism on humans is appreciated, although arguably not backed up by history: it seems to me like most places times and economic systems turn out a similar percentage of knowledge explorers: ask yourself what percentage of the landed gentry in the UK did this, for instance, and what percent just leisured away. I propose with no data the numbers are largely invariant; what a society or economic systems does change is the ability of the x% to make progress and impact/implement.
However the thing that really caught my interest is the font they are using. Yes its designed to look old, nothing new. But what is new is that the letters are not all at a fixed level, they move up and down minutely. Is that a product of the font, or something that is done in the rendering?
Personal anecdote: my dad grew up during the post-colonial Malaysian era, and attended some colonial schools that were still ran by the British Anglican missionaries. I guess that's what instilled some stamp collection habits, which he did try to impart to me. I recall waiting in line for first day covers in my early school years, or going to tiny local post stamp trading events. For some stamps that were still affixed to letters, we'd carefully try to dissolve it with water, dry them, and store them in collection books lined with plastic/paper. Ah the simple tangible hobbies of the pre-Internet era...