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Design Through the Lens of the Human Condition(medium.com)
1 points by fadeyev 11y ago|0 comments
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by fadeyev 13y ago
FontSquirrel's generator will strip out a lot of unneeded characters. By default this means including just the basic Latin subset with the main punctuation glyphs. If you look at the character set for Clear Sans ( http://www.
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by fadeyev 14y ago
I think his point is that low DPI devices don't render detailed fonts well so we're forced to use fonts that are optimized for the screen (Verdana, Georgia, etc) if we want to see decent results (i.e. not a blurry mess). Because these fonts
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by fadeyev 14y ago
Hey Eric, I'm the author of the linked post. I actually do mention that light fonts on dark backgrounds look terrible on OS X and suggest using the antialiasing mode as a fix. Dark text on a light background is another story however.
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by fadeyev 14y ago
The margin under the subheading should be the same (or at the very least not smaller) than the bottom margin of each paragraph, otherwise you end up with the subheadings looking like they're attached to the paragraphs that directly follow t
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The Typography and Layout behind the new Signal vs. Noise redesign(37signals.com)
5 points by fadeyev 14y ago|1 comments
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by fadeyev 14y ago
Not an expert in typography so I may be wrong, but I'd say it's a modern take on Humanist (also known as Venetian), one of the earliest Roman typeface styles. Here's a good article about this style: http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/06/ty
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by fadeyev 14y ago
Thank you for your comment saraid216. I realize full well that I am prescribing my own moral framework, but that is the second part of the main idea, the first being that there be a moral framework in the first place. I emphasize this split
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by fadeyev 14y ago
Hey AshleysBrain, author of the post here. Thanks for your comment. To address your point: The users' enjoyment isn't really the issue. It is not immoral to play the game, nor to pay for it, nor to have fun doing it. The issue is whether th
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by fadeyev 14y ago
Author of the post here. Thank you for your comments. I'd like to address the main criticism that I see in the comments, which is that I did not specify what it is that I mean by morality, and what moral system I'm using to make my judgemen
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by fadeyev 15y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, you're right that the example is now outdated, though it's probably not too difficult to find more browser specific code to pick on :) I'll change that.
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by fadeyev 15y ago
Hey aditya42, I'm the creator of LESS Elements. Nothing is wrong with Bootstrap, it's just that when I wrote these mixins a while back Bootstrap wasn't yet available.
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by fadeyev 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you're finding it useful. Name should be pronounced like "Use Aura" but without a gap. It's a play on the word Aura, combined with User, or Usability, as the heatmap is a bit like an aura. There are a couple of
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by fadeyev 15y ago
New project I'm working on. Wanted to make a site that's as simple as an image uploader or a code paster, but for click testing. You upload a screenshot of your interface and ask people to click somewhere. The app will generate a heatmap of
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Show HN: Instant click tests for visual interfaces(usaura.com)
4 points by fadeyev 15y ago|3 comments
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by fadeyev 16y ago
It hasn't stopped working, it just behaves differently. It stopped working on shadow blur amount of 0, but it works at 1px or more.
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by fadeyev 16y ago
Yes, but the whole point of subpixel rendering is aesthetics. Its job is to make fonts look smoother and crisper, and in majority of cases it does just that. I'll accept that OS X's rendering of bold fonts on dark backgrounds is terrible,
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by fadeyev 16y ago
Conventional CSS
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by fadeyev 16y ago
LESS or Sass are great in specific use cases. They're especially useful when you're using a lot of CSS visuals (where you have to write out about 3-5 lines just for one property because each browser has it's own version, i.e. -moz-, -webkit
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by fadeyev 16y ago
Less.js will cache the CSS on modern browsers after the first load using HTML5 local storage, so subsequent loads aren't an issue. First load is also very fast and won't make a huge difference. Like you, I wouldn't normally recommend runnin