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> Oops! > Bold, Medium, Text, Extralight and Thin should not be used in websites. Why not?
by bringtheaction 9y ago
> Oops!
> Bold, Medium, Text, Extralight and Thin should not be used in websites.
Why not?
- dsr_ 9y agoBecause a committee at IBM said so. That said, the Bold is very, very heavy, and the Thin is very, very light. But I see nothing wrong with the Sans in Medium (taking the place of bold, usually), the Text (it's not bad) and the Extralight (if you really need that, which you probably don't.) I also see that they banned #0 black text, presumably because they are elite. That's why all my browsers have Reader extensions now.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoLegibility? Just speculating, but websites get used in more diverse ways than most media; books do not need to look good across every screen size from 3 to 300 inches. So it's probably wiser to be more conservative.
- bovine3dom 9y agoI can't answer for the heavier weights, but lighter font weights can look dreadful on low PPI displays (e.g, desktop computers).
- pawelk 9y agoMaybe they have decided to limit the choices to just enough for the web in order to limit the download size of a typical landing page? There are too many websites out there that pull complete weight ranges of multiple webfonts.