fonts
is this where i'd post font questions?
I keep getting complaints about the fonts on this page, but not one person seems to be able to suggest anything else, I guess they just like to complain, and not to help...not this board, nuther board...anyway the site i'm talking about is at http://www.warthogproject.com the font currently being used is pixies at 14 and 18 points with no antialias, everyone says it's jaggy, an dthe font before that they all said was blurry, my feeling is that all text is either blurry or jaggy...help
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Megan posted this at 02:01 — 19th April 2002.
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Are you refering to the font in the main design area? (In the pop-up?) It seems to me like that font is supposed to look hard-edged like that. It looks fine as far as that goes but I am finding that it is hard to read at the size you have it there.
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Suzanne posted this at 02:49 — 19th April 2002.
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the problem is you are using a decorative font for things that require comprehension. you'll have to either make it bigger so it's readable (comprehensively, not just that you can pick out letters), or choose a better font for the stuff people have to read.
23benny23 posted this at 04:23 — 19th April 2002.
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and a better font would beeeee?
Suzanne posted this at 05:39 — 19th April 2002.
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You want us to design for you?
A better font would be one that's easier to read. Since you are using graphics, you have all sorts of options. Choose a font that has more traditional letter shapes for better comprehension, and don't use ALL CAPS as it makes all the words look the same (like rectangles) and makes comprehension decrease.
theprofessional posted this at 12:59 — 22nd April 2002.
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Arial, verdana, helvetica
Experiment with others if needed, but this is what I mainly use.
Megan posted this at 13:26 — 25th April 2002.
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Eh, but they're so boring!
If you want to keep your font size that small in the right side area, try looking for fonts that are designed to be readable at small sizes.
Hey, did you change this? I seem to remember it being orange before. I think the old one looked better.
(I was going to point you towards Font Flood's section for small fonts, but the site seems to be down
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Brooke posted this at 18:38 — 1st May 2002.
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The other problem I see is that they are all caps. That is always harder to read!
Brooke
doublehelix posted this at 18:43 — 1st May 2002.
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Another thing to do with a small font is to increase the intercharacter spacing by 5% or so.
Mike Feury posted this at 07:16 — 5th May 2002.
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Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia and ComicSansMS have all been specially designed for computer screens by Microsoft. The reason is that screens are not as sharp as printed pages, so print fonts are a little harder to read.
Your font is quite hard to read, definitely unclear. You have the added disadvantage that [if I remember correctly] white font on black is also more difficult to read than vice-versa.
And yeah, all caps is more difficult to read too - should only be used for small groups of words like headings etc.
Mike
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