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Why use "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" if you could use "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"...



Must we really fill the comments of Hacker News with lazy twitter copypasta?

https://twitter.com/JackOfQuills/status/984290288259788800


Sorry. It spent in my brain clipboard so long that I forgot where I copied it from. And I don't do twitter.


If you do do twitter, https://twitter.com/pangramtweets is fun.

One of my favs (apropos for the HN crowd): I would code it differently by sending the ajax request to the backend server and randomize the number there :Grinning face with smiling eyes: #magento #php #laravel


Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!


Zing! Vext cwm fly jabs kurd qoph.

New job: fix Mr. Gluck's hazy TV PDQ


Either one is still lacking when evaluating a font. While seeing every letter is helpful, knowing how different letter combinations look adjacent to each other is also important (a j in the middle of a word for example).


Obviously we need a panbigram, containing every possible pair of letters.


And not just pairs, in some cases threesomes are needed to fully evaluate the font.


Because foxes are better




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