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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
#132A 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.)
Those images seem to have the same font (might be the resolution/compression) but I just went to twitter.com and I saw immediately the difference.
And I'm not even a big user, I visit like once a week for 10 min. I guess it's even more obvious for people who use it all day long.
I wouldn't say it's better or worst, it's probably just a matter to get used to it.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not try, though? First and foremost, I think it's a good thing that designers are getting work. I also think huge "for fun" webapps are in a particularly advantageous place when it comes to pushing the boundaries of design, mostly because they have people on hand who can do it and who probably want to do it. Next, it's really a low risk preposition. Maybe Office 365 needs to be conservative with fonts. Twitter ca…
Twitter's chirp webfont is almost 100k. On optimized sites, that can easily be larger then all of the HTML/CSS combined.
But tens to even hundreds of times smaller than any single tweet that has an image in it, so not really a useful metric.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#134Twitter's designers did this because it helps them get promoted and earn more money.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#135Simple solution, just disable use of custom fonts in browser preferences, to force use of configured system fonts.
Note: simple does not imply useful. Plenty of great content out there that strongly benefits from telling the browser not to use the extremely limited "web safe" fonts, or incredibly ugly OS defaults for non-latin content. Let along fonts for typesetting maths, or diagrams, or even smart things like "temporarily showing scribbles instead of real text, until everyone's clicked the "ready to share!" button on their shared page experience".
This is the nuclear option: it's simple, and also ensures a terrible experience of a web with content based on the fact that webfonts are going to work.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#136New font looks fine to me. But might be because I don't read Twitter every day. Didn't even know if the new font was active until I checked the Chrome inspector.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#137Apparently there are problems with the font hinting which is why it looks bad on Windows. Folks are still figuring it out, but see e.g. https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1425892769550245888
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
Primarily, any license fees your don't have to pay for billions of per-use occurrences is money saved. In Twitter's case: that's a lot of money . But there's of course also the whole "Your honor, as the evidence makes plain, this content/communication is claimed to have originated on Twitter, but does not use our official typeface. We move to dismiss this case/be awarded damages based on the fact that we were not par…
That or brand managers want branding.
Do you have real-world examples of the hypothetical you invented?
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#139A 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.)
Those images seem to have the same font (might be the resolution/compression) but I just went to twitter.com and I saw immediately the difference. And I'm not even a big user, I visit like once a week for 10 min. I guess it's even more obvious for people who use it all day long. I wouldn't say it's better or worst, it's probably just a matter to get used to it.
> Those images seem to have the same font (might be the resolution/compression)
Check the g, the size of the upper section of the B, the width of the o, the comma...
The fonts are completely different.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#140Wow I thought something felt weird when I looked at the screen then looked away. I'm not dyslexic or anything but looking at Twitter with that font almost makes my head hurt, not kidding.