Math and front-end

Tantek Çelik did some of this experimentation, amazingly, over a decade ago (2001). Right-click for his CSS: "A Study of Regular Polygons" http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/polygons.html

Re: Math and front-end

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Post by tzahola » Sat, Jun 09, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #4

tzahola wrote: post #2

I find the font on this site pretty annoying to read.

You have control over what your computer does. You don't have to accept things you don't like. Change it.

Sure! For example I commanded my browser to close this page.

Re: Math and front-end

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Post by Animats » Sat, Jun 09, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

He's talking about basic arithmetic. Sums. Averages.

(Front end design ought to have more math behind the scenes, like a constraint solver, and less arithmetic visible to the web designer.)

Re: Math and front-end

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Post by suprfnk » Sat, Jun 09, 2018, 11:41 PM UTC

tzahola wrote: post #2

I find the font on this site pretty annoying to read.

Same, and this seems to happen so much on different websites that I made this bookmark:

    javascript:(()=>{document.querySelectorAll("p,div,article,section,ul,ol,li").forEach(x=>{x.style["font-family"]="Verdana";x.style["font-size"]="16px";});})();

It selects all tags that generally contain content and sets the font to Verdana, with a font size of 16px. Whenever I get to such a site, I just click the bookmark and it's readable.