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Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
I get this quite often (Chromium/Ubuntu here, too). It usually fixes itself by zooming out/zooming in. I always surf with 120% zoom, and I've kind of assumed the bug is related to that. Do you surf with a non-default zoom level?
Really? Youtube videos, Facebook photos, TV shows, movies, music, etc only 5%?
To be expected from a company that sells a text editor that's 95% typography.
Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…
Honestly though, I think we need to take more responsibility in helping shape that copy. I've also had pretty bad experiences when the client had a dedicated writer assigned. My favorite approach is to, whenever copy is missing, go to a competitors site or Wikipedia, and copy/paste. At least you get an approximation, and it helps everybody who looks at the project start responding to and thinking about content. As UX…
As someone currently using 99designs (booo!hiss!) to get a website relaunch off the ground. There are one or two designers who have actually, well, read the brief, who engage and listen to feedback intelligently. I will want to work with them again in different areas, and am happy to see they have got some portfolio beginning.
Its the difference between asking permission and asking forgiveness.
Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…
Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
I get this quite often (Chromium/Ubuntu here, too). It usually fixes itself by zooming out/zooming in. I always surf with 120% zoom, and I've kind of assumed the bug is related to that. Do you surf with a non-default zoom level?
Typography for Japanese characters is fascinating - three different languages almost, sitting in the same sentence, the cadence of language reflecting in the angles or spacing, the possibilities are an order of magnitude more complex than English - and an order of magnitude more rewarding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esthet/3454734/ - beauty in calligraphy
http://www.kfstudio.net/himaji/ - cute fontface for Kanji
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?111 - a good primer
> 95% of the information on the web is written language. Really? Youtube videos, Facebook photos, TV shows, movies, music, etc only 5%? To be expected from a company that sells a text editor that's 95% typography.
Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…
Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
Also, no ligature :/ I have ligature on my website by using: text-rendering: optimizelegibility with Computer Modern. For many technical reason, typography on the web is hard. I had written my though about it here (there are images, this is why I simply don't copy/paste): http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Typography-and-the-W...