It's been like that for me for a couple of days now. I chalked it up to the increased traffic.
We did choose Verdana for readability, but I really dislike it.
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DXMachina - Dec 19, 2002 1:44:05 pm PST #2149 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 1:49:10 pm PST #2150 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
We did choose Verdana for readability, but I really dislike it.
So that's why it was chosen? Intresting. I like it, actually. There are so many fonts that aren't easy to read, but Verdana is smooth, and great for skimming. What do you dislike about it, DX? Surely there's no such thing as 'too readable'.
Jesse - Dec 19, 2002 1:49:17 pm PST #2151 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's been like that for me for a couple of days now. I chalked it up to the increased traffic.
That's my fear, and it worries me.
billytea - Dec 19, 2002 1:58:47 pm PST #2152 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So that's why it was chosen? Intresting. I like it, actually. There are so many fonts that aren't easy to read, but Verdana is smooth, and great for skimming.
Personally, I prefer a serif font. They're more readable for whole paragraphs. (San serifs do a little better on headers and such like, IIRC.) But I'm fine with Verdana, if it was decided there was a need for it.
(Of course, if it was just for me I'd probably put the whole thing into Papyrus. But I'm funny that way.)
John H - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:08 pm PST #2153 of 10000
Verdana is certainly a very well-designed font for online reading.
My feelings are that we shouldn't specify a font for body-text reading at all.
And that we shouldn't specify font sizes at all, except in relative terms, but I know that would cause havoc with the design.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:13 pm PST #2154 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'd probably put the whole thing into Papyrus.
Naturally. I might go for Times New Roman, which is familiar, but Verdana is fine.
Rob - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:24 pm PST #2155 of 10000
Secret font shout-out to Mac users.
Michele T. - Dec 19, 2002 2:01:32 pm PST #2156 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Verdana was specifically designed for web readability. It also works better than most fonts in small sizes.
John H - Dec 19, 2002 2:03:55 pm PST #2157 of 10000
Rob, snerk. How I miss Chicago. Not.
To expand on my point before, whether or not the font we chose is a good one, to have chosen a font at all takes away from full usability: the philosophy that the user can set the fonts (and font sizes) they like to use in the browser preferences.
Rob - Dec 19, 2002 2:05:30 pm PST #2158 of 10000
How I miss Chicago. Not.
Well, this is the crappy, new Chicago. Not the cool, classic Chicago we use on the iPod. You can thank the Germans for that.