Turning off the stylesheet on every page as I browse the web would be a hassle; much better to change a setting once and never have to worry about it again. About the only pages I've found that aren't improved by enforcing a sensible font-choice are pages designed to showcase CSS3 font embedding - and those are pretty rare.
I do wish browsers would have a per-host "allow custom fonts" setting, alongside the tradition per-host "allow images" and "allow cookies" settings. With the potential security implications of downloadable fonts, it seems only sensible - but nobody seems interested in implementing such a thing. :(
This is exactly why anyone that says they are a web designer - yet does all their work in some 'pixel perfect' tool like Macromedia (or whatever the 'cool kids' use these days) is just deluding themselves.
Nope. It looks horrible in Safari. It actually looks better in IE9 since Windows traditionally employs much more aggressive anti-aliasing and hinting (something that’s smaller than one pixel or between pixels simply gets bumped up to one pixel and forced onto the pixel grid).
The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.
I was going to order one to give away just to see what it looks like, but damn, 250$ %( Is that all markup or is it really just that expensive to print these things?
How difficult would it be to adjust the model from a 3D scan of the person and therefore always have a perfect fit? For instance, using this kind of techno : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rhXC3TWZwg
(disclaimer - I'm a cofounder of VLAM)
I occasionally get to work with Natalia Allen of Design Futurist, and I know she's currently working on something similar to this in it's early stages.
Love it. Anyone know how the material responds to sustained heat? I'm thinking 4 - 5 hours in 80 - 95 degree weather. Pretty standard in places like Miami, FL, Puerto Rico, etc..
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 108 ms ] threadUntick that box, set the Firefox defaults to something attractive like Droid Sans, and rejoice at how readable the Web becomes.
View → Page Style → No Style
I do wish browsers would have a per-host "allow custom fonts" setting, alongside the tradition per-host "allow images" and "allow cookies" settings. With the potential security implications of downloadable fonts, it seems only sensible - but nobody seems interested in implementing such a thing. :(
Web-designers: please make your sites robust to people picking their own fonts, and also robust to users enforcing a minimum font size!
I thought the period between the D's was a speck of grime. >_>
The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.