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Easy: don’t use them. They are a waste of time anyway. I promise you your users care 0% about whether your font is “just right” or not.
by togaen 5y ago
Easy: don’t use them. They are a waste of time anyway. I promise you your users care 0% about whether your font is “just right” or not.
- NaughtyShiba 5y agoIt’s not about “just right”. It’s about branding.
- togaen 5y agoThat’s just another thing your users don’t care about.
- Gigachad 5y agoSpoken like a true hacker news user. Absolutely zero understanding outside of their field but still confidently parades their opinion. Turns out that branding and consistency are actually very important.
- hexo 5y agoTurns out with modern technologies it is never ever consistent, nor nice, fast, ergonomic. Heck, sometimes not even usable at all.
- gwn1 5y agoHaving a consistent logo is great and SVG is a good choice for that But for things like the body font on a website, nobody really cares except the company's designers
- wtallis 5y agoThe worst case of this kind of designer hubris I've seen is Qualcomm's website, which includes a webfont that's completely pedestrian except that it makes every "Q" look like the Q in the company logo — which is actually a pretty poor stylistic fit for the rest of that font.
- distantsounds 5y agoUntil the HTML spec is actually fixed so this isn't a problem solved by jabascript/css hacks, this is the accurate answer