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Strange take, as if this isn't largely a tool for designers to experiment with type scales?
by spagoop 3y ago
Strange take, as if this isn't largely a tool for designers to experiment with type scales?
- giraffe_lady 3y agoMaybe, but in this context on this site I think it's safe to assume a lot of people are going to look at this with "ah! another subjective judgment that can be marked Objectively Correct by using an algorithm."
- scrozier 3y agoI'd be happy to be wrong, but this sure feels like another instance of a numbers/formulas/algorithm-oriented person wanting a shortcut to visual style. This site is full of these, in many areas of endeavor. As a musician, I particularly notice posts that do this kind of thing with music ("I've Invented a New Musical Notation That Makes Everything Easier!"). I just get sad for the designers who have to battle this stuff every day. No programmer would take "input" on their code from a nurse (say), but designers face "input" on their decisions and their craft at every turn. I've yet to meet a designer who was longing for a web form to input a bunch of numbers to generate some type sizes. But I could be wrong. It happens a lot.
- tracker1 3y agoI think you assume that a designer can't also understand math, ratios and scale. Many practical designers are also engineers.
- scrozier 3y agoNot sure how you read that into my comment. I'm saying that trained, skilled designers don't need formulas and tools like this to achieve pleasing and functional results.