Web Design is 95% Typography • Hacker News Board

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by cobychapple » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:10 AM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #14

That website is impossible to get a quick overview on for me. Those centered lines looked like "thoughts" at first but it seems they are subheadlines? The whitespace feels all weird to me. The text is very huge and uncomfortable. The content itself is badly written (and to me, liking reading something is important. Surely the author's name is "Oliver Reichenstein" not "oliver reichenstein" as the font looks like. Ran…

Regarding the type being large, iA have very good reasons for that being the case, which they outline very clearly in another article [1].

[1] http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/ "The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard"

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by jestinjoy » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:13 AM UTC

which design this blog uses?

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by digitalWestie » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:16 AM UTC

Adrock wrote: post #7

Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...

came here to say the exact same thing

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by sneak » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:21 AM UTC

Adrock wrote: post #7

Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...

Get an OS that cares about how type looks on screen.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by silon3 » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:31 AM UTC

At least 50% is making a good fluid (not only responsive) layout, that handles things like large fonts, adjusts to dynamic text, etc...

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by lordlarm » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:40 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #24

Adrock wrote: post #7

Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...

Get an OS that cares about how type looks on screen.

Or designers can use fonts which works for all operating systems and browsers.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by gbog » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:46 AM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #14

That website is impossible to get a quick overview on for me. Those centered lines looked like "thoughts" at first but it seems they are subheadlines? The whitespace feels all weird to me. The text is very huge and uncomfortable. The content itself is badly written (and to me, liking reading something is important. Surely the author's name is "Oliver Reichenstein" not "oliver reichenstein" as the font looks like. Ran…

Agreed, seem full of pedantry. Moreover no typography will fix poorly written text: “what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job"... the guy did not proud read himself, most likely.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by pseudonimble » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:47 AM UTC

lordlarm wrote: post #26

sneak wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get an OS that cares about how type looks on screen.

Or designers can use fonts which works for all operating systems and browsers.

The font is not at fault, the renderer is at fault.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by brudgers » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:48 AM UTC

lhnz wrote: post #4

Very interesting way of thinking. Typography as an interface to the content you wish others to consume.

Typography is a primary user interface element of Microsoft's Metro paradigm. Typographic elements can more readily be culturally localized using standard tools. It is harder to do this with skuomorphic icons.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by azundo » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 11:59 AM UTC

Adrock wrote: post #7

Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...

This used to happen to me all the time on all sorts of pages. I haven't noticed it since upgrading to 12.04 so perhaps it has been fixed.

I did find the bug report for it at one point and a workaround is to right-click and open the web inspector. For some reason this forces a re-render that fixes the problem.