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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).
Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
Chrome on Linux is a treated as a third class citizen by Chrome developers and it has a crap text layout engine.
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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).
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"
>an overly strong contrast (full black and white) is not ideal either, as the text starts to flicker. Benchmark: #333 on #fff
I prefer #000 on #ffd, but that's me.
> 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.
Youtube videos are often almost empty of information.
http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/css/don%E2%80%99t-fear-we...
Too often people confuse knowledge of fonts with typographic knowledge or skill. Understanding how to set type is far more important; correctly choosing a good measure (line length), margins, leading (line-spacing), and a meaningful hierarchy of font sizes (among other things) all have a huge effect on readability.
For anyone interested in learning more about typesetting, I recommend "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst.
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…
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> 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 :-)