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A good design should have good fallback. Yes. A random example will be bbc.com, where BBC Reith fallback to Arial, Helvetica Free Sans and San serif. With mode
by phantomathkg 4y ago
A good design should have good fallback. Yes. A random example will be bbc.com, where BBC Reith fallback to Arial, Helvetica Free Sans and San serif.
With modern web "application", the chances you see a bunch of text would either be the T&C page, documentation you read, or news website.
These days we shop online as much as we do physically, so I pick two random clothing brand, Uniqlo and Levis. To create the same experience you shop online as you do offline. These two websites employ their font instead of system font, Uniqlo Pro and Helvetica Now.
From a function point of view, blocking those font does not stop you from buying their clothes. But part of the user experience will be lost.
Disclaimer, I am engineer in the media industry and has no association with the two example websites.
- hulitu 4y agoUser experience is more than fonts. Most of the sites are unreadable at default browser zoom. Printing is almost impossible (i know, nobody prints those days). Gray on gray is the norm.
- dspillett 4y ago> Printing is almost impossible (i know, nobody prints those days) I like to print things like Train times and such when heading out, just in case I need to alter plans and tech fails so I can't look up the next option online. When flying on holiday I have a little was of paper with connection details, luggage rules, etc. Printing is increasingly unusable direct from sites/apps so I've taken to either writing my own notes (which has the bonus of saving paper) or taking screenshots (which also saves paper as cropping allows less irrelevant detail & site chrome to be included). I'm almost nobody in a large number of other respects too though!