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https://github.com/IBM/type/blob/master/LICENSE.md > Copyright © 2017 IBM Corp. with Reserved Font Name "Plex" > This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Does this mean you can use it in commercial products?
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I'm not convinced that's still a relevant distinction. Looking at the OLED screen on an iPhone X, for example, it can be hard to visually tell the difference between screen and paper.
Still, not everyone is on an OLED screen. Especially on desktops.
Out of interest - What does IBM’s brand mean to you? (Serious question)
By that, I think I mean - what does IBM make you think of and what emotions does it instil in you when considering the company and brand?
Frankly, I'm not convinced I should be taking design advice from people who made this landing page. In some parts the page looks borderline broken [0]. [0] https://i.imgur.com/Lsz19Zl.png
Never use pure black (Hex value: #000000) for text, but instead, a range of grays. This irritates me greatly. I can understand somewhat the justification against pure white (a poor attempt at compensating for monitors being set by default to insane levels of brightness), but pure black? It doesn't make sense to reduce contrast this way.
It's never an absolute, but for a similar justification to the you've given for white — it creates too much contrast, and is therefore most often (especially in print and on bright displays), uncomfortable to look at: "[Pure] black and white create the highest contrast possible".[0] HN's body text is actually pure black (as far as I can tell) and works alright because it's on an orange/grey background, but if you pla…
It sounds vaguely like an appeal to authority suggesting that IBM is not in a position to give advice. Can you expand on that?
“... to reflect our brand and our design principles” Out of interest - What does IBM’s brand mean to you? (Serious question) By that, I think I mean - what does IBM make you think of and what emotions does it instil in you when considering the company and brand?
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Isn't README.md the default view? If so, I'd assume you can include as much info about that project as you like in there.
Sort of. The default view is the root directory listing, followed by the README. If your root directory happens to contain many files, the README will be below the fold. E.g., look at https://github.com/camlistore/go4 . Unless your monitor height is 1600 px and you're using 90% browser zoom, you might not even see the README until you scroll down.
“... to reflect our brand and our design principles” Out of interest - What does IBM’s brand mean to you? (Serious question) By that, I think I mean - what does IBM make you think of and what emotions does it instil in you when considering the company and brand?
IME, the overwhelming response I get from IBM employees to a problem is they tell me about their bureaucratic rules, with no flexibility, and not about solutions to my problem. It's like dealing with a computer algorithm: They follow very specific pre-written instructions, and cannot and will not deal with anything the programmer didn't specifically anticipate. They don't care that a problem exists or needs to be solved; they care only about following their algorithm. And the bureaucracy is so large and complex that they don't know who can solve the problem. When training customer-facing employees, I use IBM as an example of what not to do - it's your job is to solve the customer's problem, not the customer's, and your job is not to follow a procedure; procedures are tools, not outcomes.
I'm not blaming IBM's employees by the way; clearly that's a management and organizational problem. When I deal with people at organizations like that, I try to have sympathy - I only have to deal with these frustrations on the occasions I interact with their company; they have to do it all day, every day. They can't bend the rules and go out of their way to help every customer.
As long as I'm going on about this: IMHO it also deprives IBM the benefits of human intelligence - dealing with novel situation, innovating and solving problems, etc. Perhaps IBM's view of human work explains, to a some degree, their concept of AI that can replace people.
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It's never an absolute, but for a similar justification to the you've given for white — it creates too much contrast, and is therefore most often (especially in print and on bright displays), uncomfortable to look at: "[Pure] black and white create the highest contrast possible".[0] HN's body text is actually pure black (as far as I can tell) and works alright because it's on an orange/grey background, but if you pla…
Pure black and white don't create too much contrast. I'd like to see some actual research if anyone claims that it does. And there is a contrast button on every monitor to turn it down.
Pure B&W on high brightness is awesome out in broad daylight but of course terrible indoors with lights off and the same display settings.
But is that the fault of the colors?
Never use pure black (Hex value: #000000) for text, but instead, a range of grays. This irritates me greatly. I can understand somewhat the justification against pure white (a poor attempt at compensating for monitors being set by default to insane levels of brightness), but pure black? It doesn't make sense to reduce contrast this way.
It's never an absolute, but for a similar justification to the you've given for white — it creates too much contrast, and is therefore most often (especially in print and on bright displays), uncomfortable to look at: "[Pure] black and white create the highest contrast possible".[0] HN's body text is actually pure black (as far as I can tell) and works alright because it's on an orange/grey background, but if you pla…