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The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by Slackwise »

Slightly off topic, but the font used in the slides is Vollkorn:

http://friedrichalthausen.de/vollkorn/

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Vollkorn

I figure there are some designers or people interested in typography that might appreciate this information. It was rather easy to eyeball due its strong and distinct serifs at large point sizes, although the stylesheets verify it as well.

Even more off topic: you'll also find that Vollkorn is one of the fonts available for use in the Google Play Books app on Android. If you use Google Play Books, I recommend trying it out. It's a fantastically readable font, especially white-on-black, for late night readers like myself.

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by thejana »

Slackwise wrote: post #2

Slightly off topic, but the font used in the slides is Vollkorn: http://friedrichalthausen.de/vollkorn/ http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Vollkorn I figure there are some designers or people interested in typography that might appreciate this information. It was rather easy to eyeball due its strong and distinct serifs at large point sizes, although the stylesheets verify it as well. Even more off topic: you'll al…

It is a great "workhorse" font. Awesome for noticing it. When Tapestry first launched it was the only font offered because of it's readability in most cases. An artist made this Tapestry story breaking it down: https://readtapestry.com/s/C9M36zhFA/

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by Slackwise »

thejana wrote: post #4
Slackwise wrote: post #2

Slightly off topic, but the font used in the slides is Vollkorn: http://friedrichalthausen.de/vollkorn/ http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Vollkorn I figure there are some designers or people interested in typography that might appreciate this information. It was rather easy to eyeball due its strong and distinct serifs at large point sizes, although the stylesheets verify it as well. Even more off topic: you'll al…

It is a great "workhorse" font. Awesome for noticing it. When Tapestry first launched it was the only font offered because of it's readability in most cases. An artist made this Tapestry story breaking it down: https://readtapestry.com/s/C9M36zhFA/

That was a great, and very accurate, description of Vollkorn. The more I use it, the more I fall in love with it. So happy to see it go around. Thanks!

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by saurik »

daurnimator wrote: post #5

Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?

I installed the app, and part of the welcome tutorial was that they seemed excited about how you couldn't go backwards "so take your time". They advocate using it for "storytelling": it seems like an irritating medium for a semi-scientific slide deck.

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by drivers99 »

I remember back in the days of HTML 1.0 or 2.0, they suggested not using the words "click here" in a link since some day you might be able to indicate other ways of following a link besides clicking (or you could already through non-graphical browsers). I think this is the first time I've seen "tap here" when I had to click. It was kind of a weird feeling, like I was pretending to tap by clicking. But my point is "tap here" and "keep tapping" is just as incorrect as "click here."

And as Donald Norman would point out, you shouldn't have to put instructions on your interface telling people how to use it (e.g. "push" and "pull" on doors).

It seems that everyone who uses this site to create a presentation is going to have to put "tap here" and "keep tapping" on the first two slides to get anyone to understand what's going on.

It looks like I wasn't the only one confused by the user interface. Losing the ability to go back and forward is also kind of annoying (tried right click).

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