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Looking back at it, the weirdest thing in the list have to be pixel fonts. Back then I used them and I liked them, but today it seems like a foolish gimmick. My
by locallost 3y ago
Looking back at it, the weirdest thing in the list have to be pixel fonts. Back then I used them and I liked them, but today it seems like a foolish gimmick. My only thought is that it's a testament to the fact those days were for young people and they mostly didn't have issues with their sight. Today we are starting to think about reading glasses and the web is ubiquitous so readable content is beating pretty content (whatever pretty means).
- JimDabell 3y agoI just remember there was a particular web design site that was popular with web designers that used a 10px pixel font. Every designer I knew spent so long staring at awful sites like that, they trained themselves to perceive any reasonably sized text as “massive”. Trying to get them to design something that was actually readable was a nightmare. 12px text was as far as they were willing to go for body copy.