Great summary Max! Very concise. In particular the statement about the fact serif and sans-serif were never sufficient. You saved me a lot of writing! :) On 5 Mar 2014 06:51, "Max" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Isarra, that's some good questions. > I'll try to answer as concise as possible, but in case you're interested, > here's the detailed version: https://gist.github.com/awesomephant/9352699 > > *> Why would this be the best experience?* > In our case, a good experience means being able to *read stuff* and > understand the content as easy as possible. Therefore, a typographic setup > that makes reading as easy as possible makes for a good experience. > > *> But why would we, for an interface for an online encyclopedia and > similar, need something so specific at all?* > Our goal is to help people get information they need by *reading articles*. > It makes sense to make reading an article as easy as possible, because > ultimately that will help people understand the content. The typeface is an > important part of good typography and should be chosen carefully, even > though there's other factors such as spacing and size that need to be > considered. > > *> If there is a very specific 'right font', why aren't we using it as a > webfont?* > I think webfonts are amazing, and we should definitely use them. However, > even with webfonts using a font stack is a good idea. What if the user has > an old browser that doesn't support webfonts? What if the user chose not to > download font files to save bandwidth? In those cases we still want to do > our best to ensure a decent reading experience, which isn't always possible > with the default fallbacks. > Our font stack would look something like this: > 'Fancy pants Webfont Pro', DejaVu Sans, Arial, sans-serif; > > *> Why did the generic 'serif' and 'sans-serif' become insufficient?* > They were in fact never sufficient. But for quite some time, web > technology didn't allow us to do it better. Now that it does (with webfonts > and finer typographic control), why shouldn't we go ahead and improve our > user experience? > > Hope that answered your questions, feel free to hit me up if something > isn't clear. > > Best, max. > @awesomephant > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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