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Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)

by sanqui 10y ago

moron4hire 10y ago
What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.
- vertex-four 10y ago
  No, but the point of Lorem Ipsum is it blends into the page reasonably, real text or not. If you were writing e.g. a template for a piece of forum software which doesn't use real names, the vast majority of people use avatars that are not pictures of faces, and if you wound up designing around face pictures (bright, certain colour tones, etc etc), your design might clash slightly with what people actually use.
  - spdustin 10y ago
    Well then you wouldn't use this project, would you? I wouldn't use a phone book for a user directory, but I also wouldn't suggest the phone company has failed by not releasing a book consisting solely of my employees' details.
  - WorldMaker 10y ago
    In which case you might use something more like https://robohash.org/ https://robohash.org/ (which was just the first off top of my head). There are a number of convert a hash to some stylized avatar tools out there already. I've seen fewer examples like Pravatar with actual headshot photos for design use.
- sanqui 10y ago
  Right, which is why designers in fact often turn to placeholder text closer to English (or their language). I only felt like pointing that out.
spdustin 10y ago
Even with the emoticon, that comment seemed designed to put down the project by suggesting its author is shortsighted and has failed to see how things really work in the really real world. Was it your intent to condescend and hope it goes unnoticed by the addition of a few bits of punctuation? To belittle the work that went into it? Because, to be frank with you, that's how it seemed to me.
- sanqui 10y ago
  All I can say is it absolutely wasn't my intent to belittle the work that went into the project. I only felt like sharing what went through my mind when seeing that all of the avatars were faces. There are many sites where faces are expected, like Facebook or LinkedIn. The internet is larger than that, though, and some people prefer to identify in other ways. Maybe I should've been more explicit about the conversation starter.

Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)

by sanqui 10y ago

Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)

What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.

vertex-four 10y ago
No, but the point of Lorem Ipsum is it blends into the page reasonably, real text or not. If you were writing e.g. a template for a piece of forum software which doesn't use real names, the vast majority of people use avatars that are not pictures of faces, and if you wound up designing around face pictures (bright, certain colour tones, etc etc), your design might clash slightly with what people actually use.
- spdustin 10y ago
  Well then you wouldn't use this project, would you? I wouldn't use a phone book for a user directory, but I also wouldn't suggest the phone company has failed by not releasing a book consisting solely of my employees' details.
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  In which case you might use something more like https://robohash.org/ https://robohash.org/ (which was just the first off top of my head). There are a number of convert a hash to some stylized avatar tools out there already. I've seen fewer examples like Pravatar with actual headshot photos for design use.
sanqui 10y ago
Right, which is why designers in fact often turn to placeholder text closer to English (or their language). I only felt like pointing that out.

spdustin 10y ago

Even with the emoticon, that comment seemed designed to put down the project by suggesting its author is shortsighted and has failed to see how things really work in the really real world. Was it your intent to condescend and hope it goes unnoticed by the addition of a few bits of punctuation? To belittle the work that went into it? Because, to be frank with you, that's how it seemed to me.

sanqui 10y ago
All I can say is it absolutely wasn't my intent to belittle the work that went into the project. I only felt like sharing what went through my mind when seeing that all of the avatars were faces. There are many sites where faces are expected, like Facebook or LinkedIn. The internet is larger than that, though, and some people prefer to identify in other ways. Maybe I should've been more explicit about the conversation starter.