Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
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Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#2If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#3If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
Although it might be a creative way to promote your panel, it earned a downvote. Just don't think it's the appropriate place to promote it.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#4What this is actually saying is don't use Garamond for copy text as its not designed for current DPI's that are currently used on monitors. It doesn't mean you can't use it for titles or headings or devices with a high DPI.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#5What this is actually saying is don't use Garamond for copy text as its not designed for current DPI's that are currently used on monitors. It doesn't mean you can't use it for titles or headings or devices with a high DPI.
Correct. The poor display of Garamond for copy text is used as a vehicle to discuss the relationship between medium and form. Garamond will look just fine in very large type.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#6If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
Although it might be a creative way to promote your panel, it earned a downvote. Just don't think it's the appropriate place to promote it.
Can you explain that further? Here's my logic: if you're in the comments on this thread, you're presumably interested in this topic, and would like to learn more about it -> Many HNers go to SXSW, and would get a chance to learn more, should my panel be accepted -> I'm not famous, so getting help from interested people is my only chance at getting a panel accepted.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although it might be a creative way to promote your panel, it earned a downvote. Just don't think it's the appropriate place to promote it.
Can you explain that further? Here's my logic: if you're in the comments on this thread, you're presumably interested in this topic, and would like to learn more about it -> Many HNers go to SXSW, and would get a chance to learn more, should my panel be accepted -> I'm not famous, so getting help from interested people is my only chance at getting a panel accepted.
> Can you explain that further?
Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but too much is not appreciated.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#8If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
Hmm that link doesn't work for me (get something about the website being offline) but I am curious about what your panel will be about, is it readability and how these things affect it or just design in general?
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain that further? Here's my logic: if you're in the comments on this thread, you're presumably interested in this topic, and would like to learn more about it -> Many HNers go to SXSW, and would get a chance to learn more, should my panel be accepted -> I'm not famous, so getting help from interested people is my only chance at getting a panel accepted.
> Can you explain that further? Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but too much is not appreciated.
"Too much" seems subjective to me.
Additonally, I've spent thousands of hours over the course of a decade obsessing over design details and historical context. Then, I spend a week crafting a blog post to condense a piece of my knowledge for sharing. I then ask for an opportunity to spend hundreds of hours preparing a presentation to share more of my knowledge. Somehow this is self-serving?
I don't need more (or more prestigious) clients. A SXSW badge is (relatively) inexpensive. I do all of this because I love to share knowledge. I understand what it's like to be turned off by shameless self-promotion, but sometimes a little perspective is called for.
Re: Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
#10If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
Although it might be a creative way to promote your panel, it earned a downvote. Just don't think it's the appropriate place to promote it.
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