Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
"Major" is the important word there.
Web Design is 95% Typography
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Re: Web Design is 95% Typography
#52Comically, 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?
Me too (Ubuntu + Chromium), and is really annoying, as more and more sites are starting to use webfonts :( The strange thing is that only happens around links and on Chromiun (Chrome works ok)
Re: Web Design is 95% Typography
#53This is sort of off-topic, but does anyone know what kind of theme/blogging software this blog is using?
Re: Web Design is 95% Typography
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Me too (Ubuntu + Chromium), and is really annoying, as more and more sites are starting to use webfonts :( The strange thing is that only happens around links and on Chromiun (Chrome works ok)
I think the bug was maybe fixed (I haven't seen it in a while), but Ubuntu ships an ancient version of Chrome (looks like Chrome 18, while I'm using Chrome 23).
Re: Web Design is 95% Typography
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"
That says it is the browser default size and that is not correct. Here, check it out: http://pastehtml.com/view/cc5nellwp.html First line uses your browser's default. Second line is their setting (~21px). Such huge text is definitely not easy to read for me on any of my devices.
Since we're discussing opinions here - the second entry is much more readable on my 1080p monitor at arms length.
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#56That 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.
Too proud to proof read!
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#57Web 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…
That's absolutely true, but hand on heart, how many Web Designers/Developers here really have a say on when they receive content? The chance to build a design around the content would be a fine thing for many of us.
I've repeatedly had the pleasure of receiving content on the very day of the launch. And yes, it often involves tweaking the stylesheet, or something similar.
Re: Web Design is 95% Typography
#58Web 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…
I'd be worried they'd leave the copy/paste approximation in the final website. Maybe that says more about the people I work with though.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I'd be worried they'd leave the copy/paste approximation in the final website. Maybe that says more about the people I work with though.
What I do in those cases is to color the unchanged text in red or pink. That way anybody can see what needs to be done and help get things moving.
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#60Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated. 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/…
> Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated. It will never stop being English/Latin alphabet dominated for the English (Americas, Australians, etc) though. So, it's not like english web designers will see any major change in their work, or english web users...
Well, I suspect we shall see words entering our lexicon from China - every right thinking 人 would agree :-)