Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma) | Figma

> I don’t mean this as a slight, but this has to be written by a post-millennial. You could’ve looked him up. He’s not hard to find and definitely not post-millennial. Design director at Figma and previously worked at Medium, Google, and Code for America. Started his master’s in the late 90s. link ▶ this video Even if he were, these types of generational comments are trite, like the “only 90s kids will get this” memes. It is naive to assume someone’s age from an opinion; the tapestry of human diversity is considerably more complex than that. > nothing about these letterforms were unusual or “ugly” to me as they were practically ubiquitous. Ubiquity has nothing to do with beauty. You can live with something all your life and still find it ugly. Or you can develop your taste and change your opinion. You can even have nuanced opinions. Like the author, who mentions liking the font after the initial reaction. He called this post “a love letter”. link Look at the length of the post—that is more research on the subject than most of us will ever do. Let’s perhaps give the benefit of the doubt that a long time professional with the passion to do this amount of research has some basis for their views which go beyond when they were born. > like how a modern reader might react to seeing a “long s” — ſ — for the first time. There are a plethora of reactions to that: “how strange”, “how intriguing”, “how beautiful”, … Most people don’t think every old thing they encounter for the first time is ugly.