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> Also the capital "I" in the font they're using is killing me. This is the main thing I remember after reading what seemed like an otherwise interesting study
by pirateking 14y ago
> Also the capital "I" in the font they're using is killing me.
This is the main thing I remember after reading what seemed like an otherwise interesting study.
- lucb1e 14y agoThought I was the only one. +1
- blake8086 14y agoJ don't understand why you have such a problem with it. Jt seems fine to me.
- w1ntermute 14y agoJ don't get it either. Jf you're going to criticize something, make it something substantial.
- wyclif 14y agoAlso, there's a grammatical error: "We check our mail dozen times a day." No. We check our mail a dozen times a day.
- danenania 14y agoNot to spoil the pile on, but I think that's just a mistake. You know, the kind humans make? That said, I agree the redesign is misguided. But it's certainly gotten them some attention.
- wyclif 14y agoI'm fully aware it was a mistake. That's why I pointed it out.
- briandear 14y agoGood grief. Is everything you've ever made absolutely perfect? You build something beautiful and then you can dogpile on a grammar mistake.
- wyclif 14y agoWhat "dogpile"? Seriously, since when does two upvotes constitute a dogpile? The reality is that if something isn't written well, the design is not going to wow me by itself. Good writing is a requirement, not an option, for great sites.
- ZoFreX 14y agoI think if you're going to put so much focus on visuals, and make it your clear aim to get as much attention from the world as possible, it would probably be a good idea to: * Check that your font doesn't do anything crazy, like make "I" look like "J" - come on, the sixth word on the page looks like it has a spelling mistake * Check your grammar. I know it's pernickety but if I'm hiring a designer I expect attention to detail, and if someone doesn't get someone to cast a cursory glance over their work before inviting thousands of people to look at it, what does that say about how much effort and pride they put into their work? * Check your spelling, I saw at least one fairly basic mistake (for rationale see above)
- hellerbarde 14y agoThe whole J - I thing is something rather European I think. Here in Europe some consider it distinguished and hip... It's of course debatable whether that validates the decision, but it might be an explanation. Kind of a back to the (typographic) roots thing. Personally, I don't care for it... The rest, yeah, I agree with you. Get someone that speaks the language to spell and grammar check.
- shock3naw 14y agoSo they check it exactly one dozen times per day? Your correction also doesn't seem valid. Perhaps they meant to write that "We check our mail dozens of time per day." First impressions are very important; I too find copy errors an indication of an inadequate effort to communicate effectively. However, that doesn't validate a malicious attempt to bash the writer(s) when a simple correction would have sufficed.
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- wyclif 14y agoSorry, but: 1. That would still be ungrammatical, 2. The parent was a simple correction, and 3. There was absolutely nothing malicious about it.
- shock3naw 14y agoShould have been 'times per day.' I made a typo and couldn't edit it; I don't know why HN isn't letting me do so. Asides from that, why post a correction here? Only other HN readers are going to see it, which inherently means you aren't writing the comment in the hopes of them fixing it, but to show the error to other commenters. Perhaps malicious was the wrong term, but your comment certainly wasn't trying to help them improve their copy.
- DanBC 14y agoThey're Lithuanian. I'm guessing English is not their first language. Seeing the number of possessive its with an apostrophe on HN I can cope with someone using English as a second language making a minor grammar error.
- wyclif 14y agoThe issue was not coping. The issue is that it's poorly written.
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- blaines 14y agoI agree, J != I I'm a fan of the minimalism but as high caliber as I was expecting. http://www.minimallyminimal.com/ http://www.minimallyminimal.com/ is one of my favorites.
- Lapsa 14y agoOooh... that was capital of "I". was reading and thought that I`ve missed definition of kind a important acronym "JT". silly and ironic indeed.
- rmc 14y agoAnd it wasn't even consistant. They used the same character for the first letter of "Jimmy" and "It". I first thought it was a weird font with a weird I, but then say "Iimmy" and had to re-read.