Google Font Effects • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:22 PM UTC

keyle wrote: post #22

So I post this on designer news and it ends up on hackernews? What. Upside down.

I would say that this is almost more of a "developer design link" than a "designer design link". As in an engineer/dev can implement these "effects", in code without touching graphic editing software.

Re: Google Font Effects

#42

Post by teekert » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:22 PM UTC

Thankfully, using FF, I miss out on most of the "fun".

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:23 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #29

Grue3 wrote: post #27

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

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I heard someone saying he'd use a version of Netscape so old nobody will exploit bugs in it. Security by genealogy.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by whoisthemachine » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:24 PM UTC

Awesome. My sites will be all fire from now on.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by fsloth » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:24 PM UTC

"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way."

Oh dear.

"..with minimal effort to produce beautiful display text"

The original fonts are tweaked painstakingly by a designer. The "effects" are like putting lipstick on Mona Lisa.

Web site design is now a branch of publishing and design and Google is one of the larger corps operating in the area. This is like... I don't know, offering a high end DSLR with a physical button to add instagram filters and lens flare to the original image. Well, for free, but the decision process to add these features gives the appearance of amateurism and lack of respect for good design.

Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by ssharp » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:25 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #31

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?

I taught myself coding HTML by hand using Hippie. I regressed and switched to Frontpage because it was so "easy". I then went over to the Dreamweaver and stayed there until I learned server-side programming, which put me back in the text editor, where I've happily been since.

Even with my stupid page of links nobody other than me cared about, it was still exciting learning HTML and being able to publish whatever dumb things I came up with online on Geocities.

Image counters, web rings, and that analytics company that gave you free analytics but you had to put there little square logo on the bottom of the page and anybody could click on it to see your stats. Those are some fun memories of my fledgling web years, circa the mid-90's.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by tathagatadg » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:27 PM UTC

nostalgia ... It amazes me to think that back then how we all collectively agreed that those spinning, scrolling, blinking geocities type designs were cool - and tried to imitate them. Now a decade later, collectively laugh at them. This seems common in fashion - but is it true for other art forms as well? How then some art survive the through time and are viewed as beautiful by number of generations that follow? I mean, could we point to some web designs done years back that would still appear tasteful and clever today?

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by jraedisch » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:35 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #31

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?

And by that you mean Macromedia Fireworks? Oh, the clear blue water! The fonts really triggered some memories... .

Would have been an awesome April Fools' prank.

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by Fiahil » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:35 PM UTC

Well, I thought the 3d font effect could have some genuine use, now, in 2015. Am I a bad person?

Re: Google Font Effects

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Post by panglott » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 12:54 PM UTC

fsloth wrote: post #45

"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way." Oh dear. "..with minimal effort to produce beautiful display text" The original fonts are tweaked painstakingly by a designer. The "effects" are like putting lipstick on Mona Lisa. Web site design is now a branch of publishing and design and Google is one of the larger corps operating in the area. This…

But hey, at least it's just text instead of an image. This is good for accessibility.