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"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way." Oh dear. "..with minimal effort to produce
by fsloth 11y ago
"When making headers or display texts on your website, you'll often want to stylize your text in a decorative way."
Oh dear.
"..with minimal effort to produce beautiful display text"
The original fonts are tweaked painstakingly by a designer. The "effects" are like putting lipstick on Mona Lisa.
Web site design is now a branch of publishing and design and Google is one of the larger corps operating in the area. This is like... I don't know, offering a high end DSLR with a physical button to add instagram filters and lens flare to the original image. Well, for free, but the decision process to add these features gives the appearance of amateurism and lack of respect for good design.
Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt.
- panglott 11y agoBut hey, at least it's just text instead of an image. This is good for accessibility.
- devbug 11y agoIronically, more accessible for the blind.
- draugadrotten 11y ago> Schoolkids will love these exciting tweaks, no doubt. Plenty of money in that demographic; when Google can track schoolkids habits they can predict their future habits as adults and be the first to sell the best ads. Google (and Target) knows about the first pregnancy before the mother. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...