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Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by NicoJuicy » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 11:59 AM UTC

belgianguy wrote: post #17

I'm missing a spinning skull GIF, a permanent under construction sign and blinking pink text that scrolls incessantly. GooGleoCities, perhaps?

Lol, i also thought of Geocities and old Frontpage pages :p Missing fireworks anyone?

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by glaberficken » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 11:59 AM UTC

afandian wrote: post #7

April fools...?

first thing I did was google if this had been an April fools!

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by huuu » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:00 PM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #27

So many of these are not supported on Firefox, very disappointing.

As a Firefox user I'm glad this is missing in Firefox.

Maybe it's my age, but I'm getting more and more tired of unreadable pages that take ages and a lot of resources to load.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by chrisan » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:06 PM UTC

Pairs nicely with http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by bhaak » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:08 PM UTC

belgianguy wrote: post #17

I'm missing a spinning skull GIF, a permanent under construction sign and blinking pink text that scrolls incessantly. GooGleoCities, perhaps?

Exactly my thought when I saw the line "to produce beautiful display text" with an example that would have been atrocious on any GeoCities page.

OTOH, the time on the internet when GeoCities was hot was a wild time. I wouldn't mind if the web would get a bit less serious and more light-heartened again. :)

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by GavinMcG » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

This is a really clever move by Google. Put these out there, then lower the PageRank score of anyone foolish enough to use them!

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by Demiurge » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

belgianguy wrote: post #17

I'm missing a spinning skull GIF, a permanent under construction sign and blinking pink text that scrolls incessantly. GooGleoCities, perhaps?

gifs are not web3.0!

☠☠☠ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2620/index.htm ☠☠☠

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by koliber » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:15 PM UTC

What? No `blink`? Useless.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by coldpie » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:18 PM UTC

Great, now someone needs to write a "disable animated fonts" extension.

Extensions required to make the web usable:

AdBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Toggle Animated GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:20 PM UTC

kenrick95 wrote: post #25

Hmm, not all font effects listed there can be seen in Firefox (39 beta) and IE (11).

Same here - I thought some of the effects were just very subtle, until I opened the link in Chrome! Oh well, most of our client traffic is not Firefox so this isn't such a huge issue.