I’d argue that “the web is not graphic design” is only half true.
David Siegel wrote an essay circa 2000 pointing out that the web was going to divide into several use cases and we certainly see two of those to be ‘application platform’ and ‘publishing platform’. Pixel perfect fonts may not be so important for the first, but certainly people make landing pages that compete with magazine layouts in terms of appearance.
> All of this for the sake of a company's "brand". I say: fuck your brand. Your end-users should always trump your design "guidelines". Period.
It's my site. I can bloody well do with it what I damn well please for any reason and I don't need to explain myself to anyone and don't have any obligation to make anyone happy. Don't like it? You know how to leave a website.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 19.9 ms ] threadPreach it, brother!
I leave custom fonts disabled anyway.
David Siegel wrote an essay circa 2000 pointing out that the web was going to divide into several use cases and we certainly see two of those to be ‘application platform’ and ‘publishing platform’. Pixel perfect fonts may not be so important for the first, but certainly people make landing pages that compete with magazine layouts in terms of appearance.
It's my site. I can bloody well do with it what I damn well please for any reason and I don't need to explain myself to anyone and don't have any obligation to make anyone happy. Don't like it? You know how to leave a website.