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>>Tomte+(OP)
As others have mentioned, Ian's knots has great reccommendations, but overlooked is the "surgeon's knot".

This one has two twists instead of the normal one, and comes out like a square knot if done right. It won't come untied by itself, ever. But you can untie it by tugging on the tails of the laces. You can do this one with a thumb on the initial bend, unlike the "bunny ears" style knots.

It's a hell of a lot better than the "double knot" your kids' teachers will do if they go to school with any kind of single knot, square or not. Double knotting just results in big jams when one tries to untie it later.

Check out the surgeon's knot: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/surgeonknot.htm

>>Kozmik+1a
I don't know why, but the picture of the shoe, with the knot at the toe end of the shoe, makes me angry. I mean, literally angry, very angry, yet there is zero valid reason to be that emotionally charged about it.

Intellectually, I wonder "how will one get their shoe off, without lots of work". Yet the anger is intense for some inane reason.

Now I wonder if I need therapy, due to some shoe related horror in the past.

>>b112+Aa
I think you're mis-seeing that picture. The darker area isn't the toe box, it's the inside of the shoe as seen from the tip of the tongue.

Hope that makes you feel better.