Talk:2863: Space Typography

Are the dot's actually roughly in line with the distances?

172.71.135.78 21:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes they are. I eyeballed with a screenruler and calculated

• 0.40 AU for Mercury (Should be 0.37)
• 0.72 AU for Venus (0.72)
• 1 AU for earth (reference)
• 1.54 AU for Mars (1.52)
• 5.24 AU for Jupiter (4.98)

162.158.202.94 21:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

But what size font?Danger Kitty (talk)

129 trillion pt, give or take. 141.101.105.109 23:02, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the decimal-point check. This is my worksheet: Image (open in new tab) PRR (talk) 02:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

The number of "e"s between h and r required to make Saturn line up is about 59 (tested using 27.2 pt font) Digin (talk) 22:17, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

There are currently three different figures in the explanation for how many "e"s are needed. One says the title text is correct as written, brackets and ellipsis and all. One says 59. One says 85. They can't all be right. LtPowers (talk) 13:22, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

"They can't all be right." Well, they can, if they don't correspond to the same thing. Are we using the font size from the comic, or from the hover text? Rexon Mobile (talk) 15:39, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

I’m curious whether randall brute forced this, trained a neural network, or did it by hand. 172.70.175.179 22:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

He would probably answer: 2173: Trained a Neural Net 172.70.42.217 22:45, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Trying to prep an image of a comparison between actual orbits and the comic, but it's taking longer than i'd like someone, i guess^{(talk i guess|le edit list)} 23:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

I assume brackets around (i) are for the Saturn's rings? 162.158.102.71 23:26, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Ooh, good call. Put that in. LtPowers (talk) 13:22, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

The long, rambling diatribe about literature seemed odd at first, but I think Charlotte Brontë would be proud she was able to represent Pluto and Charon. 172.69.247.56 04:07, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the asteroid belt spans the area covered by the word "measure" 172.71.222.152 14:10, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

It would be nice if the word gaps were aligned that way, but there is no obvious alignment with either the edges of the asteroid belt, or the location of the Kirkwood gaps. The asteroid belt would stretch from the middle of the M in "measure" to the P in "space", with the most prominent Kirkwood gaps corresponding roughly to the letters A, R and E. Rexon Mobile (talk) 15:33, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

If he really wanted to represent the asteroids, I think he might have found a way to include a word like "riiii[...]iiight" so there would be lots of dots. Barmar (talk) 15:51, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

I added the table with the count of 'e's and adjusted the wording where it said 85 'e's from the Sun to say an extra 13 'e's in the word "here". I worked this out using an image from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System#/media/File:Solar_System_distance_to_scale.svg) in PowerPoint but don't have upload privileges to post. Would be nice if someone could do that. Denver87 (talk) 15:30, 5 December 2023 (UTC)