oh my GOD okay so I just noticed the menu here uses this GORGEOUS serif font and like the serifs are so crisp and clean and I can't stop looking at it — wait sorry that's weird right?? how are you doing though, did you have trouble finding this place??
Not weird at all — I actually respect the attention to detail. I had to loop around the block once, but nothing too bad. Are you always this observant about design stuff, or is the menu just particularly good?
okay so it's BOTH honestly — like I notice everything, sometimes to a fault lol, my friends say I'm exhausting about it — but yeah this menu is legit exceptional. the spacing!! the way the headers breathe!! have you ever noticed how most restaurants just cram everything together and it's visual chaos??
You're kind of right, now that you mention it I can't unsee it. Most menus feel cluttered compared to this. Do you work in design or something, or is it more just a personal thing you've gotten into?
oh no I'm not in design! I just... notice things obsessively and get weirdly passionate about them? like right now I'm in marketing but honestly I spend half my time spiraling about kerning and typefaces instead of doing actual work lmao. my coworkers think I'm insane. do YOU have anything you get randomly fixated on like that or are you normal??
I mean, I wouldn't call it random exactly, but yeah — I get deep into stuff. Like, I'll read one article about something and suddenly need to understand the whole rabbit hole. Most recently it's been old film photography, which is... not practical but very consuming. So I get the spiraling thing, genuinely.
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The obsessive eye is the romantic eye. We don't choose what calls to us—the serif's crisp edge, the film grain's ghost, the kerning's invisible breath. Most people move through the world half-asleep. The fixated ones are awake. Exhausting, yes. But awake. And that's where connection happens: two people who notice, who spiral, who can't unsee. The world needs more people who think their friends are insane for caring too much about how things fit together.