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The aesthetics would be ruined by left to right writing. You don't make a website about "traditional" colors and purposely use a Mincho font and not also use th

by knolax 7y ago

The aesthetics would be ruined by left to right writing. You don't make a website about "traditional" colors and purposely use a Mincho font and not also use the traditional orientation. The color name underneath isn't "English" either, it's Japanese written with Latin characters. The convention is to rotate left to right scripts when using vertical typesetting, complaining about it is like complaining about an American site spelling "colour" as color.

claudiawerner 7y ago
>You don't make a website about "traditional" colors and purposely use a Mincho font and not also use the traditional orientation. Actually, you do. It would be an easier experience for the target audience (which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names). I have nothing against aesthetic purity, but it gets in the way of content here. They are not inextricable. >The convention is to rotate left to right scripts when using vertical typesetting, complaining about it is like complaining about an American site spelling "colour" as color. The convention is fine; adherence to the convention in a medium to which the convention is clearly not suited is what I'm taking issue with. It may be fine for printed media - that doesn't make it fine, in this quantity, for the web. A better comparison would be a website for, say, an Arabic colour palette and the romanization is written backwards. I have no trouble learning Japanese by reading books and manga with tategaki - but to say that it is the style best suited for anything trying to be "aesthetically Japanese", no matter the content or medium, is what I disagree with.
- knolax 7y ago
  > which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names Romaji gets used for stylistic purposes for plenty of things that aren't meant for non-Japanese. Surely as a manga reader you would notice this? I don't see what about a computer screen makes rotating text impossible. People don't literally rotate the thing they're reading when it's done in print either. Text rotated 90° gets used posters (which you can't rotate) too. I've even seen it done in America.

by knolax 7y ago

claudiawerner 7y ago

>You don't make a website about "traditional" colors and purposely use a Mincho font and not also use the traditional orientation. Actually, you do. It would be an easier experience for the target audience (which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names). I have nothing against aesthetic purity, but it gets in the way of content here. They are not inextricable. >The convention is to rotate left to right scripts when using vertical typesetting, complaining about it is like complaining about an American site spelling "colour" as color. The convention is fine; adherence to the convention in a medium to which the convention is clearly not suited is what I'm taking issue with. It may be fine for printed media - that doesn't make it fine, in this quantity, for the web. A better comparison would be a website for, say, an Arabic colour palette and the romanization is written backwards. I have no trouble learning Japanese by reading books and manga with tategaki - but to say that it is the style best suited for anything trying to be "aesthetically Japanese", no matter the content or medium, is what I disagree with.

knolax 7y ago
> which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names Romaji gets used for stylistic purposes for plenty of things that aren't meant for non-Japanese. Surely as a manga reader you would notice this? I don't see what about a computer screen makes rotating text impossible. People don't literally rotate the thing they're reading when it's done in print either. Text rotated 90° gets used posters (which you can't rotate) too. I've even seen it done in America.