Wait Switzerland is named after a font?
The font was named after the country. It was designed in 1957 in Münchenstein near Basel, Switzerland.
That’s not right because otherwise Comic Sans would be named America.
Yes, the romans named them that ironically to make fun of there illiteracy
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The reason is to avoid favoring any one of the four official languages by deriving the code from a neutral, fifth language.
That’s also how you avoid circular dependencies.
OpenSans ftw. It’s basically like Helvetica, but copyleft
And that’s why I call it Chwitzerland
Home of the dreaded Helvetica Scenario.
I prefer Switzer Sans MS.
This is also why their currency is abbreviated CHF.
I get it. They squatted .ch so China had to go with .cn
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I thought it was because in Switzerland they spell it Schwitzerland
No, we spell it “Schweiz”
Fucking Latin and their over sized naming conventions.
