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From: James Jolley on 9 Jun 2010 13:06 On 2010-06-09 17:32:57 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > On 2010-06-09 16:51:34 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > >> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:03:40 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2010-06-09 15:56:15 +0100, Elliott Roper said: >>> >>>> One can but hope that HTML5 and better display hardware will encourage >>>> designers to try a bit harder and get back to good old fashioned >>>> typography. >>> >>> Have you been reading >>> <http://www.subtraction.com/2010/06/08/better-screen-same-typography> >>> on this very subject? >> >> All good points there, but my regard for him has gone down a little. >> >> I dislike the use of bold to show hyperlinks, but not as much as I >> dislike the way they're done in Joe Clark's article linked forward >> from there - http://blog.fawny.org/2010/04/12/appletype/ . Horrid >> horrid. > > Yup. The neatest styling of hyperlinks I saw recently - but can't find > again of course - gave them a blue OS X-selection style glow. I think > it used text shadows. > >> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" makes me think Joe a snob of >> the highest order and therefore want to discount everything he says, >> even though he's right - it's the way he does it! > > He doesn't sound very user-friendly :-) Assign him to dev null and forget he exists then. Seems a bit idiotic but wellmeaning, judging by that article, not that the article really means much to me but oh well.
From: Richard Tobin on 10 Jun 2010 04:16 In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies - has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British universities. -- Richard
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Jun 2010 04:35 On 2010-06-10 09:16:33 +0100, Richard Tobin said: > In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" > > The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies - > has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this > department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British > universities. I'm sure it is also the cause of mis-spellings of "aerial". -- Chris
From: Woody on 10 Jun 2010 04:43 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" > > The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies - > has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this > department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British > universities. Why? -- Woody
From: D.M. Procida on 10 Jun 2010 04:48
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, > > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" > > > > The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies - > > has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this > > department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British > > universities. > > Why? Arial causes brain injury, lassitude and melancholy. Daniele |