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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19264 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-04 13:51:44
June 04 2013 13:51 GMT
#41
stop it with that

good
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2597 Posts
June 04 2013 14:04 GMT
#42
On June 04 2013 20:31 salle wrote:
<style type="text/css">body, td, a, p, td.sidemenu a:link, td.sidemenu a:visited, td.sidemenu a:hover, .sf-menu a, .extramenu h1, #forummsginfo, .forummsginfo, .forumPost, #submessage, .submessage, #forummsginfoa, .forummsginfoa { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; !important; } .forumsig, td.sidemenu a.sb_title:link, td.sidemenu a.sb_title:visited, a.sb_title:hover, #forumindex, .forumindex, .submessagea, .quote { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; !important; }</style>

Well played, sir.
The frumious Bandersnatch
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
June 04 2013 15:03 GMT
#43
Monospaced fonts are the best fonts!
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
June 04 2013 16:32 GMT
#44
Wow, i got a headache from page 2.
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
June 04 2013 17:12 GMT
#45
came expecting something like the last font blog.
page one was disapointing.
page two looked promising for the future of this blog.
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
June 04 2013 18:14 GMT
#46
The second page of this gave me hope, the third let me down . On the brightside, it wasn't comic sans :>.
User was warned for too many mimes.
Stratos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic6104 Posts
June 04 2013 18:24 GMT
#47
never gonna give you up
TL Sans *{font-family: Comic Sans MS !important}
En Taro Violet
a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
June 04 2013 19:34 GMT
#48
is there no css style to increase the font kerning?

not that i would ever helvetica anyways
starleague forever
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-04 19:39:43
June 04 2013 19:38 GMT
#49
there is http://www.kernjs.com/

but i havent played around with it much
it's also really inelegant
Photographer"nosotros estamos backamos" - setsuko
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
June 04 2013 19:40 GMT
#50
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;

As for the alias and TrueType with chrome there are a million gazzilion ways to battle how chrome renders fonts.
Generally about Helvetica though I do agree.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19264 Posts
June 04 2013 19:44 GMT
#51
god it's awful

execute and it adds a span to every individual character. Then you have to apply CSS to each character, individually, you want to modify. It's not even per general character, allowing you to set kerning for the letter "e" globally, but rather for each individual goddamn unique character.
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
June 04 2013 19:57 GMT
#52
oh god yeah forget that
Photographer"nosotros estamos backamos" - setsuko
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
June 04 2013 20:54 GMT
#53
On June 04 2013 20:31 salle wrote:
<style type="text/css">body, td, a, p, td.sidemenu a:link, td.sidemenu a:visited, td.sidemenu a:hover, .sf-menu a, .extramenu h1, #forummsginfo, .forummsginfo, .forumPost, #submessage, .submessage, #forummsginfoa, .forummsginfoa { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; !important; } .forumsig, td.sidemenu a.sb_title:link, td.sidemenu a.sb_title:visited, a.sb_title:hover, #forumindex, .forumindex, .submessagea, .quote { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; !important; }</style>
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On June 04 2013 18:24 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On June 04 2013 17:45 salle wrote:
HawPig we should make browser specific css for the news templates, so good font browsers can see things in nice fonts and give boring ol' arial to chrome.

Browser sniffing. Ick.

We need to get the W3C working on something like a "@media all and (font-looks:shitty)" query so that we can serve nice fonts to browsers that can handle them.

Or Chrome can just like sort out their font rendering engine... it's seriously bad that the only browser that can't display google fonts well is chrome. And this has been known for a long while.

ew.
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Flossy
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States870 Posts
June 04 2013 20:56 GMT
#54
Let's just use Webdings.
etternaonline.com
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10342 Posts
June 04 2013 21:26 GMT
#55
I actually had to uninstall Helvetica just because so many sites used it inappropriately and it looked like trash.
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[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
June 04 2013 22:00 GMT
#56
Helvetica.

The font.

The font.

The real font.

It should be supported anywhere. With best hinting.

Helvetica renders the actual, the pure glyphs.
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
RandomAccount#49059
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2140 Posts
June 04 2013 22:34 GMT
#57
--- Nuked ---
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
June 04 2013 22:38 GMT
#58
if you cant tell between a sans-serif and a serif, this discussion is pretty much not made for you lol
Photographer"nosotros estamos backamos" - setsuko
salle
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Sweden5554 Posts
June 04 2013 22:42 GMT
#59
On June 05 2013 05:54 Targe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 04 2013 20:31 salle wrote:
On June 04 2013 18:24 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On June 04 2013 17:45 salle wrote:
HawPig we should make browser specific css for the news templates, so good font browsers can see things in nice fonts and give boring ol' arial to chrome.

Browser sniffing. Ick.

We need to get the W3C working on something like a "@media all and (font-looks:shitty)" query so that we can serve nice fonts to browsers that can handle them.

Or Chrome can just like sort out their font rendering engine... it's seriously bad that the only browser that can't display google fonts well is chrome. And this has been known for a long while.

ew.

It was a response to the guy saying he used verdana on his site.
The company I used to work for was an elearning company and we also used verdana everywhere.
It's a good font for reading on the web, but it's not good looking at all.
Right now I'm having a small crush on open sans.
Administrator"Ambitious but rubbish!" - Jeremy Clarkson
WillS
Profile Joined September 2011
61 Posts
June 04 2013 22:50 GMT
#60
On June 05 2013 07:34 stormtemplar wrote:
I do not understand this discussion at all. My ability to tell the different between Arial, Helvitica and Times New Roman (Which I use for word documents) is non-existent.


Helvetica and Arial are sans-serif typefaces whereas Times New Roman is a Serif Typeface: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/03/serif-vs-sans-the-final-battle/. If you view the typefaces at 12pt or larger the difference should become clearer.

On June 05 2013 07:42 salle wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2013 05:54 Targe wrote:
On June 04 2013 20:31 salle wrote:
On June 04 2013 18:24 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
On June 04 2013 17:45 salle wrote:
HawPig we should make browser specific css for the news templates, so good font browsers can see things in nice fonts and give boring ol' arial to chrome.

Browser sniffing. Ick.

We need to get the W3C working on something like a "@media all and (font-looks:shitty)" query so that we can serve nice fonts to browsers that can handle them.

Or Chrome can just like sort out their font rendering engine... it's seriously bad that the only browser that can't display google fonts well is chrome. And this has been known for a long while.

ew.

It was a response to the guy saying he used verdana on his site.
The company I used to work for was an elearning company and we also used verdana everywhere.
It's a good font for reading on the web, but it's not good looking at all.
Right now I'm having a small crush on open sans.


Salle, is there a big focus on TL being able to work without javascript?

+ Was the elearning company that you worked for a big fan of moodle by any chance?
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