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Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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Fri, 18 May 2001 13:18:28 GMT
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"MG" == Matthew Gerber <matthew@digitaliris.com> writes:
MG> In lugnet.general, Johannes Keukelaar writes:
> > Nice fonts. Just a suggestion: Would it be possible to create a
> > brick-n-brack-like font from a more system-y viewpoint, i.e. the studs
> > not right behind eachother, so it gets a more 3-d feeling?
MG> Just as soon as someone comes up with a way to type at a diagonal to a
MG> receeding horizon point. The physics just won't work in 2D space.
No need for perspective projection, just using the same parallel
isometric projection used for the system font.
> > <pet-peeve>
> > Please leave the size of my browser window alone! I'll determine how
> > large I want the window to be. That is a very _rude_ bit of
> > javascript.
> > </pet-peeve>
MG> [What follows is not directed at anyone in particular, especially
MG> Johannes. My brother and I were arguing just this point the last
MG> few days, and I think it may make good discussion fodder. No flame
MG> intended.]
[I'll take off my asbestos suit (which is bad for my lungs anyway),
and put down my flamethrower. In fact, I won't even take things
personally. *wink*]
MG> Now that's an interesting point. Do you often complain to book, magazine or
MG> newspaper publishers about the physical size of their offerings? Would you
MG> turn down a brochure about something you find really interesting because it
MG> was printed on legal rather than letter size paper?
Ah, no, but then the physical medium is part of what you get. Now, the
'physical' medium, the thing that I read it on is mine. A more
fitting analogy: What if your local tv station started broadcasting in
21-inch format, using only a tiny area of your cool 50-inch projection
tv? Wouldn't you complain? Or, as in my case, what if the tv station
started broadcasting in 50-inch format, and all you could see was the
top left hand corner on your 21-inch tv?
My screen is not as tall as you make my window.
MG> I created my site the way I wanted it to be. I determined that I would like
MG> to make the size of my pages a certain width and height to be most readable
MG> and pleasing to my, and hopefully others, eyes. I've done this with other
MG> sites, and will do it again.
MG> In my mind, it all comes down to the designer's eye, what the
MG> creator wants to get across visually.
You are aware that html was originally designed as a logical mark up
language, not a visual one? Don't you think that the contents of a
site are more important than the flashy looks? Alternatively, doesn't
the opinion of the viewer matter?
(Hmm, I smell some slight smoke here. To flame thrower: Down, boy!)
MG> I personally HATE either all of the extra space left on the right
MG> side of my screen when I go to a site that is designed smaller
MG> than the last one I was at, and HATE EVEN MORE having to
MG> constantly click the expand box to get the full scope of a site
MG> that is bigger than the last one I was at. I'm constantly resizing
MG> the darn window, ya' know?
Oh, yeah, I hate having to enlarge my window too, for sites that say
"this site was designed to be watched in a 1280x1024 resolution".
MG> When I ran across this JavaScript, I thought "Hey! Now THAT'S
MG> useful!". So I used it. And so far, I'm happy with the results *as
MG> a designer*.
That's one solution to that problem, I suppose. Another would be to
design your sites to be viewable at any window size. Put your effort
on contents, not on pixel-level details of the site.
MG> Now, as users, what do others think? Well, that's why
MG> I wrote this little rant. What do YOU think?
Well, there it is. That's what I think.
MG> Matt
Cheers,
Johannes.
--
"Your fault. Core dumped." -- Erik Lundevall
Visually inspecting visual programming languages.
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