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A tweet showing the actual difference as screenshot: https://twitter.com/Tempo_Storm/status/1425549066377777156 Appears to be a standard-res Windows rendering. (Obviously a Retina Mac/iOS rendering will be totally different.)
Not sure what the fuss is about
… we can?
(From https://twitter.com/DerritDeRouen/status/1354548649561186306)
Not every thing on the Internet needs its own font. (I say as the former head of a type foundry.)
I don't see any blur. I don't get fatigue. I find it quite neutral, but easy to read.
Weird.
Every UI change forces a cost on your users. It forces them to relearn the language of what your buttons mean (the Follow button semantics here are atrocious now, and give almost no affordances to users about what is going on). Changes to UI reduce familiarity, and if they are fond of your product, that is usually a really bad thing. Having a good friend change personality is disturbing and unpleasant! What is gained…
The new font is also destroying Arabic and Farsi text. Does Twitter not have a single Farsi or Arabic speaking employee? This is an indication that they really don't value diverse employees there. Can't believe no one was like "hey this is destroying readability of these two major languages."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's bad on Mac, it's bad on Windows. What the hell did they use to develop and test this where it looked good?
looks fine to me on linux, surprisingly. though i doubt that the designers tested on a linux box with a tweaked fontconfig edit: here's a comparison with helvetica https://i.imgur.com/BJlHQhf.gif
I'm getting Roboto on Linux which (a) looks great and (b) is very similar to the new font
If you don't like the new font or Follow/Following buttons, my browser extension/user script for Twitter can now get rid of them, screenshots in the release notes here (the latest Chrome version is still pending review at the time of typing): https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/releases I tried turning Chirp back on after a full day of coding at work and it's even worse when your eyes are starting to get tired…
Not every thing on the Internet needs its own font. (I say as the former head of a type foundry.)
I'm sure you know this, but for others: This is a cost-saving move. It's always more economical for a company of Twitter's size to develop their own font because 1) Then they don't have to pay per-use licensing fees, which are huge at the billion user scale, and 2) a peculiarity of copyright law means that the actual shapes of the letters aren't actually protectable by copyright -- you can copy an existing font virtu…
Warning: offer not applicable in UK and most countries in EEA. They have the concept of protecting designs there. Japan excludes most designs of fonts because of its utilitarian use BUT if the font (technically typeface) is distinctive and used in a way that can be defended as an artistic choice, it's protected under copyright.
A tweet showing the actual difference as screenshot: https://twitter.com/Tempo_Storm/status/1425549066377777156 Appears to be a standard-res Windows rendering. (Obviously a Retina Mac/iOS rendering will be totally different.)
Personally i wouldn't be able to tell they re different without a hint Not sure what the fuss is about