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- Pupsipu0
that took ages to load, showed the standard fonts with the rest of the content white. Theeeen it loaded in 40 seconds. Fuck that shit, not worth 2 seconds of load wait if you ask me.
Designers are just gonna abuse these fonts, the web looks much better when there are only 5-6 fonts. And more importantly, the load times will resemble flash abuse, bad idea.
And it will be annoying to read all the weirdo fonts that are perfectly good for body copy, but each takes time to adjust to.
- TheBlueOne0
Was it just me, or was that page just a hot mess to read? Which I found incredibly ironic.
- janne760
i found it interesting and useful. thanks.
- itsmitch0
That page simply crashed my browser: Safari 4 on OS X Leopard. And I lost all my tabs. Thanks, asshole.
- You just got cut up by the bleeding edge of web technology. Cut bad.TheBlueOne
- It's sad that fonts are the bleeding edge of anything. Even MS Word has has custom fonts forever.itsmitch
- janne760
no crash at all here. safari 4, OS X TIGER. :)
- seeessess0
give a man many fonts, he will use them, internet will look ugly.
- Warland0
More fonts may look ugly. So be it. Designers who can't control themselves aren't.
Go and visit some newspaper websites. Not just any of them. Go for the very top publications you can find. Say The Guardian, New York Times, Times of London, Le Monde. Take your pick.
Now crop out a story link and excerpt and compare them side by side. Most often the only difference you'll see is the shade of blue and the size of the type. It's all Georgia headlines with Arial copy.
It's generic. Boring. Rote. If you want to be known in your craft for being generic then by all means, stick to the system fonts.
- As for the papers, have a look at them in print and you'll have very different resultsWarland
- nobody fucken cares. Ask people that aren't in your field, ask them if they'd rather have one good font for all textPupsipu
- or if they want to get used to 10 different fonts with 10 different sizes. People will say they prefer their RSS readersPupsipu
- where there is ONE font, and they control the size and look, and don't care about which brand is what.Pupsipu
- ask them before you make assumptions that are based on nothing but opinions and passions in your fieldPupsipu
- Amicus0
Safari 3.2.1 on the Work iMac running Leopard. Loaded in about 12 secs and looks like I assume it was intended.
- Warland0
Here here on kerning control. Sure beats A<span style="letterspacing:-1-px">V</span>
There's no reason the web can't be as rich typographically as the print world.
- 5timuli0
Someone is fucking with my head.
- Juddly0
Ugh, fucking terrible example. Used with proper discretion @font-face could be great. Easier than sIRF or images.
As for other typographic controls, hyphenation would be nice...