Lessons learned switching our web UI from stock fonts to a proprietary font

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2010/08/lessons-switching-our-web-ui-from-stock-fonts-to-a-proprietary-font.html

by johns • 16 years ago

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powrtoch• 16 years ago

AKA "Reverse Verdanagate".

k-zed• 16 years ago

Thanks for making the Web a more horrible place (step by tiny step)...

well as long as I can force my browser to use the system sans-serif font for all web pages, all is good

masklinn• 16 years ago

> Thanks for making the Web a more horrible place (step by tiny step)...

Oh, insanity, how beautiful you are.

ihumanable• 16 years ago

All that talk and not a single screenshot of what it looked like with the font change.

oconnore• 16 years ago

Did you see the article? Then you saw the font...

aresant• 16 years ago

By default I shudder reading any article that suggests that a ustom font is a smart UI choice for web apps.

Almost without exception, custom font choices lead to broken designs, slow serving, and work against clean UI.

But this article fairly balances the joy of selecting a custom font, with the sheer litany of issues that come with proper integration: compatibility, hosting, licensing, sizing, etc.

Lessons learned switching our web UI from stock fonts to a proprietary font

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