Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
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Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#2This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#3I remember when Chirp was the Twitter Developer Conference. Those were very different days.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#4An easy way to customize a websites appearance is to add a stylesheet via a bookmarklet. For example to set the font to Arial, this works:
javascript:document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','*{font-family: arial !important;}')
Using "mono" instead of "arial" also makes for an interesting Twitter experience.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#5This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.
User stylesheets are a relic of Web 1.0, when the web was a series of hyperlinked documents.
The transformation from web page to web application was not compatible with things like user stylesheets.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#6The new Twitter font looks so weird, and at the same time, it looks quite strong on the eyes. They should revert it to the classic one and bring back the fleets.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#7is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#8is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?
Or that the standard response of a large subset of the loudest Twitter users is everything they don't like is "literal violence."
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#9is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?
I don't use twitter that much. I find the font uncomfortable to look at on my windows desktop but not my macbook. Especially the left hand navigation bar. so, for me, it's not about the change but about the font in specific rendering environments.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#10This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.
I cannot even install fonts on Android.