Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
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Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
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Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#2You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable.
I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts, I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-)
I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's barely readable in any of them.
Combine the spindly thin body font with the layout that doesn't reflow on mobile when you try to zoom in - what a mess.
The article would be so much more readable if it just didn't use a custom font at all and simply let the browser use its default font.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#3You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
I was coming here to say this! It makes my eyes feel weird, it's dreadful
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#4You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
I was coming here to say this! It makes my eyes feel weird, it's dreadful
I concur.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#5You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
It's not an article about fonts. It's an interactive experiment on typography.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#6You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
Not sure why that is the case, the font is a professional font by Adobe (also here https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro). Maybe they are using a desktop font (without screen optimization) instead of an actual web font. You can see on the google fonts page that the font performs fine.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#7You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
Not sure why that is the case, the font is a professional font by Adobe (also here https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro ). Maybe they are using a desktop font (without screen optimization) instead of an actual web font. You can see on the google fonts page that the font performs fine.
Having said that, their example for generated fonts are kind of painful to look at.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#8Heads up for anyone on limited bandwidth: The page loads over 25Mb of javascript in order to display anything.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#9You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
Not sure why that is the case, the font is a professional font by Adobe (also here https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro ). Maybe they are using a desktop font (without screen optimization) instead of an actual web font. You can see on the google fonts page that the font performs fine.
They use the 'lighter' value for font weight in the CSS, which is just absurd for body text.
Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
#10You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…
It's not an article about fonts. It's an interactive experiment on typography.
I'm not sure that changes his argument much.