+1
And one important effect I think expected by many,
is that the web becomes more attractive for professional graphic
designers,
Who at the moment far prefer working in print exactly because of the
control over typography, layout, measurements etc…
And are skilled in using these elements to create readable and
accessible text
Which is not to say they do that all the time, because tradition tends
to bore people :-)
But the idea is with things like web-fonts you could expect more print-
designers bringing their expertise to the web,
Though there would still be a lot to be desired, stuff as basal as the
possibility to do lay-out beyond the specific one-column lineair lay
out css was designed to style, for example…
Eric
Op 29 mei 2009, om 16:57 heeft Liam R E Quin het volgende geschreven:
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:30 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
[...]
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website
designers
choose what font *I* read their text with? It's a basic usability
question.
It's a balance. Like Flash™, on the one foot it allows people to
experiment
with new user interface ideas, and lets anyone be a user interface
designer, and, on the other foot, it forces everyone to be a user
interface
designer.
So yes, we'll no doubt see some 1994-style geocities Web pages with
30 fonts
on them, all blinking and in different colours, just as when
Pagemaker was
released. And on the other hand, after the disturbance has died down
and
there's some collective wisdom, we'll see some really good designs.
Of course, there are also i18n reasons to supply a font -- if you're
writing in a script that has poor support on major platforms, you no
longer have to decide between text-in-images or telling people to
install a font.
Now, just wait until you discover that Mozilla and Safari/Webkit have
implemented CSS transforms, so that you can stretch and distort your
text too!
Liam
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