At one stage there was a thing for applications to have skins or themes and you could make your own.
Why isn't this a thing anymore?
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
#212I don't know about headaches, but I do find this font decidedly less readable. The letters are too spaced. It does something to my brain that makes me have to slow down while reading.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
They were using built in system fonts on each platform before.
I would very much like to return to this sunshine state of mind.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#214Not every thing on the Internet needs its own font. (I say as the former head of a type foundry.)
Yeah but the gumshoe designers and marketing droids getting hired say they do!
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#215I solved this by adding this rule to uBlock: ||http://abs.twimg.com/fonts/*.woff
Your filter didn't work for me with uBlock Origin, also I'm not sure that many people still use Twitter over unencrypted HTTP.
This filter seems to work (tested with uBlock Origin 1.37.2):
||abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-*.woff$fontRe: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
There was that incident a while back where a bunch of government leaks were outed as fake because they were printed with a (default MS Word) font that was not available or in use when the document was purportedly created
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#217I was really pleased when Stack Overflow switched to system fonts [0] and hoped this would be a trend. With system fonts there is less cognitive load going from app to app. The font stays out of your way and serves its purpose best: presenting textual information. Here we have the opposite: Twitter decided that tweet bodies should perform a marketing function. They sacrificed utility for brand cohesiveness. I underst…
Firefox's "Don't allow websites to use custom fonts" option makes the Web feel much more cohesive and polished.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#218I was really pleased when Stack Overflow switched to system fonts [0] and hoped this would be a trend. With system fonts there is less cognitive load going from app to app. The font stays out of your way and serves its purpose best: presenting textual information. Here we have the opposite: Twitter decided that tweet bodies should perform a marketing function. They sacrificed utility for brand cohesiveness. I underst…
Firefox's "Don't allow websites to use custom fonts" option makes the Web feel much more cohesive and polished.
What does that do for fontawesome-style fonts (icons in the private area) that websites love to use instead of SVGs and text labels?
I personally block fonts via uBlock Origin, which lets me allow them for the subset of websites I visit regularly enough that I'm okay with allowing fontawesome-style fonts.
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#219is this like the digital tobacco equivalent of getting a sore throat and a cough from not being able to get your usual brand?
Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I find Helvetica to be extremely sufficient for reading text on screen. Maybe it isn’t the best possible font, but I think their statement is kind of non-sensical, it makes it sound like it would’ve been a problem to use Helvetica… I doubt it.
There was one version of macOS where the system UI font was Helvetica and it was horrible.
It was Helvetica Neue, not regular Helvetica, in MacOS 10.10 Yosemite. In theory that variant had adjustments to make it more suitable for on screen use and I don’t recall it being particularly bad.