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Tangentially related - The demo page is a representative case of the "designer font-size" setting. I get exactly 4 lines of text on the first pageful. Not ever

by abcd_f 14y ago

Tangentially related - The demo page is a representative case of the "designer font-size" setting. I get exactly 4 lines of text on the first pageful. Not everyone surfs on Retina displays or humongous iMac panels at 1080 vertical resolution. As much as I appreciate being able to admire individual glyph curves up close and personal, it comes at the expense of being actually read the page without constant scrolling.

tikhonj 14y ago
I personally like this far more than the usual bias towards fonts that are too small. It looks better and is far easier to read. Moreover, even on a pretty bad 1280x1024 display and in a non-maximized window, I see both of the top paragraphs as well as part of the downloads--enough to know to scroll. For whatever reason, most sites seem to err on having fonts that are far too small. I would much rather they err on having fonts too large, and I do not think this particular page erred at all. Perhaps it doesn't work well on a cell phone or tablet, but it works perfectly fine on any even moderately modern laptop or desktop. As an aside, I really love the GitHub and Twitter icons. Most sites have icons that don't quite match each other or the overall design; these icons match both all the while being very simple and elegant.
- FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
  They're referring to the actual demo page: http://typeplate.com/demo.html http://typeplate.com/demo.html
mhurron 14y ago
A lot of space is wasted by the bar at the top, the logo, then the placing of the title and finally the authors name. Changing those you would be able to have much more content on the screen and still have the nice large fonts. Now personally I believe you could probably shrink the font size a little and still look good, but you still wouldn't get much content on the first page without fixing everything else I mentioned.
driverdan 14y ago
4 lines of text? How many toolbars do you have? I'm viewing it on my iPad 2 at 1024x768 and it looks good. The header takes up 1/2 the screen and then I see the large paragraph (4 lines) plus 2 lines of the next paragraph. That said, I agree that a base font size of 18px is too large.
- abcd_f 14y ago
  Here are my toolbars - http://i.imgur.com/EtS4dRL.png http://i.imgur.com/EtS4dRL.png

by abcd_f 14y ago

tikhonj 14y ago

I personally like this far more than the usual bias towards fonts that are too small. It looks better and is far easier to read. Moreover, even on a pretty bad 1280x1024 display and in a non-maximized window, I see both of the top paragraphs as well as part of the downloads--enough to know to scroll. For whatever reason, most sites seem to err on having fonts that are far too small. I would much rather they err on having fonts too large, and I do not think this particular page erred at all. Perhaps it doesn't work well on a cell phone or tablet, but it works perfectly fine on any even moderately modern laptop or desktop. As an aside, I really love the GitHub and Twitter icons. Most sites have icons that don't quite match each other or the overall design; these icons match both all the while being very simple and elegant.

FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
They're referring to the actual demo page: http://typeplate.com/demo.html http://typeplate.com/demo.html

mhurron 14y ago

A lot of space is wasted by the bar at the top, the logo, then the placing of the title and finally the authors name. Changing those you would be able to have much more content on the screen and still have the nice large fonts. Now personally I believe you could probably shrink the font size a little and still look good, but you still wouldn't get much content on the first page without fixing everything else I mentioned.

driverdan 14y ago

4 lines of text? How many toolbars do you have? I'm viewing it on my iPad 2 at 1024x768 and it looks good. The header takes up 1/2 the screen and then I see the large paragraph (4 lines) plus 2 lines of the next paragraph. That said, I agree that a base font size of 18px is too large.

abcd_f 14y ago
Here are my toolbars - http://i.imgur.com/EtS4dRL.png http://i.imgur.com/EtS4dRL.png