Sites with terrible legibility
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- mg330
It's not live or available anywhere, but I remember the 2Advanced Lasik eye surgery site from around 2002, that was strangely illegible considering that the people viewing the site, all riddled with 8px pixel font OBVIOUSLY HAD A FUCKING EYE PROBLEM AND WANTED TO SEE BETTER!
- theredmasque0
This is an awesome guitar shop, but there website has to be the worst I have ever seen. stuff is all over the place with glaring eyesore colors, and confusing layout
- aanderton0
^ Somewhat, have got to do a university write up on the importance of visual hierarchy/legibility in design. However finding bad examples is pretty difficult if you don't already know them. Most shit websites don't meta tag themselves with "poor legibility" or "shocking hierarchy".
- appalled0
and of course
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
- appalled0
love the title
http://www.frnz.de/
- wademd0
LoL... http://www.lingscars.com/
- bjladams0
one of my banks - not chosen for design but by the little accountants behind the thick glass:
- wademd0
I also find TD's site to be quite busy and lacking proper hierarchy
http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/ind…
- appalled0
you would buy a car from steve jobs if was only allowed to drive on certain streets wouldn't you?
the point here is communication. if a designer does something to hinder that communication willfully, he is at fault.
i have no need for the helvetica family installed, i only had the neue light version installed as i need it for a client. the smart css of the webs decided that helvetica would be enough.
must be smarter than the tools and stop blaming them.
design is not an "I'll force it down your throat" profession. You are responsible for the appearance of your clients information. choosing to make it look like shit on purpose makes you a bad designer, choosing to mock and blame pcs just makes you a fool
- @ICanHazappalled
- excuses for the poor font rendering quality of PCs? the default for PCs is to have anti-aliasing off, ffs.iCanHasQBN
- curious, do you design for the lowest common denominator? seems like that's your approach.iCanHasQBN
- which in turn, won't push design anywhere.iCanHasQBN
- whats your solution? use arial forever and never make these platforms take notice as to what designers are calling for?iCanHasQBN
- check out helvetica here http://www.ziba.com/…iCanHasQBN
- ...with the use of (i assume) Cufon. Oh look, a world possible without Arial!iCanHasQBN
- wademd0
The dreaded promotional items site...
http://www.buttonboy.net/
- aanderton0
Wow, I get one answer before an irrelevant debate occurs? Can anyone give me some more examples please.