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Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

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Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#21

I'm mostly impressed by the image analysis. Performance and the fact that it runs on javascript. Well I've heard of ccv.js before but not seen it's capabilities for pixel analysis. Now I have even less excuses to reimplement that broken real time image analysis app that I made for my bachelor thesis. Hmm, there are no explicit licence terms in the repositories of ccv or headtrackr though. :/

I see open source licenses in both repositories. [0][1]

[0] https://github.com/liuliu/ccv/blob/unstable/COPYING

[1] https://github.com/auduno/headtrackr/#license

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#25
post #23

Cool, another potential tool against poorly readable sites. I just created http://cantheysee.it/ for web developers to (roughly) simulate and test for users with poor eyesight.

Whatever that font is (Source Pro Sans), it's fairly unreadable to me (Chrome on Ubuntu).

My eyesight is not great, but having a font that is too thin doesn't help either.

I wish body text just stayed in either serif or sans-serif at 1em. Use custom fonts for headers, but let my browser preferences determine the body text.

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#26
post #25
post #23

Cool, another potential tool against poorly readable sites. I just created http://cantheysee.it/ for web developers to (roughly) simulate and test for users with poor eyesight.

Whatever that font is (Source Pro Sans), it's fairly unreadable to me (Chrome on Ubuntu). My eyesight is not great, but having a font that is too thin doesn't help either. I wish body text just stayed in either serif or sans-serif at 1em. Use custom fonts for headers, but let my browser preferences determine the body text.

Fixed, you're absolutely right - that font should only be used for headers.

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

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post #26
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever that font is (Source Pro Sans), it's fairly unreadable to me (Chrome on Ubuntu). My eyesight is not great, but having a font that is too thin doesn't help either. I wish body text just stayed in either serif or sans-serif at 1em. Use custom fonts for headers, but let my browser preferences determine the body text.

Fixed, you're absolutely right - that font should only be used for headers.

Thank you, most kind

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#28
Neat, but this completely ignores the real reason people have trouble with small fonts: bad eyesight. The size the font needs to be is a factor of distance and eyesight. The real solution is to just use the default font size and have users adjust that to their preferences.

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#30
post #12

I don't have a webcam installed on this machine so I can't test the implementation but what a BRILLIANT idea. This is exactly how cellphones should work; judge distance and then resize the reading pane to accommodate.

Maybe (like other comments mention). Sometimes I bring my phone closer to my face because I'm having trouble reading something because of my eyesight. Making the text smaller in response can be counter-productive.
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