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Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.
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Interesting. They all work fine for me. I wonder why? I have tested on Firefox 59 and Chrome 65 in Linux.
For me they didn't work until I clicked in the page. Chrome 60 and Firefox 58 on Linux.
Apple, Samsung, Netflix, now IBM... why does everyone need their own typeface? Is it to save on licensing fees? As a user, I don't really find these fonts very distinctive, so I don't associate them with their brands.
What are some other corporate fonts?
The most offensively poorly-engineered page I've been to in years, all to promote Arial...Sorry, our totally original grotesque font inspired by Helvetica, don't steal! . What is IBM even doing that's worthwhile?
This is one of the most frustrating page navigation experiences I have had in long a while. I tend to scroll with pgup/pgdn or arrow keys (or more occasionally, space/shift+space) and when I got to the big "IBM" logo the page just kind of stopped. I thought that was all. It wasn't until I came to this thread I realized there was more, and I should look again, but even then it took me forever to: 1. Realize I needed t…
_five months later_, I got a reply asking to explain further. I couldn't even remember what the bug was.
I'm confused -- why does 't' have a single rounded corner at the cross stroke? 'f' doesn't have this feature and it doesn't seem very consistent with the rest of the font.
- to more easily distinguish 't' from similar characters, such as 'f'. Particularly with monospace fonts, rigid adherence to rules can result in character confusion.
- to balance the foot of the 't' which extends to the right.
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Huh? Times New Roman is at least acceptable; it's legible and was designed by a real type designer. Plex is a complete joke.
Times New Roman was designed to squeeze as much text on a page as possible, probably to make more room for ads. Makes me wonder why it's not more popular today.
Silly me, I... heh, the first time I ever saw TnR was in relation to MS Word. And so I read this sentence thinking first about screen resolution, then "but why would you print ads in your documents"...
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Especially with company with as many tentacles as IBM, having own typeface also helps ensure consistent design language across the company, both in terms of licensing (they can use it in any media/geography/field they need) and applicability (they can have all the variants etc needed). Of course cost is also a major aspect. Random article claims that "Until recently, it [IBM] was spending over a million dollars each…
I agree, they managed to capture some IBMness there. But if they were doing it to enhance their branding, why did they make it open source?
Plus, if their push is to tie the font back to IBM strongly, allowing anyone to freely use the font is good press, so why not?
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For me they didn't work until I clicked in the page. Chrome 60 and Firefox 58 on Linux.
Doesn't that just mean your browser window didn't have focus? I can scroll on apps in the background with scroll wheel but not arrow keys, etc.. That's just an OS thing