Comments on: 4 Fears of @font-face

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By: gyo

gyo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:06 +0000

I don’t think we should worry about all the bad designers that could use funky fonts and effects on the text, because they will be easily ignored by the users.
Just because bad designers could make a mess of fonts, it doesn’t mean the good ones can’t enjoy of the possibilities of using @font-face.

By: Marie Poulin

Marie Poulin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:57:47 +0000

Hilarious…

I wonder though, how likely it is for such ugliness to take effect, when the type of people likely to make such decisions (aka the untrained) can already do so via images…?

I’m asking that knowing full well the answer. Give people the power, and they will abuse it.

I’m going to naively hope and/or go on pretending that those using @font-face are the trained professionals, and hopefully those choosing to make the web look ugly with ridiculous decorative fonts will have a hell of a time getting hired to actually build professional websites…?

who knows, should be interesting to see! I am hoping it will separate the men from the boys (and i mean that in the most gender neutral way)
:)

By: Toby Lee

Toby Lee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:01:40 +0000

The fonts you’re allowed to embed legally aren’t worth using; the fonts that are worth using aren’t embeddable.

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:19:23 +0000

It’s gonna be godawful at first and I’m really looking forward to it.
For the first time in history, authors are their own typesetters.
With the power comes the responsibility. Choose your templates wisely.

Cheers,

rich

By: robotpanda

robotpanda — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:10:39 +0000

This feels like a pandoras box – ugly fonts may dominate the internet! Though, as mentioned, this would just be a throwback to 1997, when everyone had their awful geocities sites. I guess we can only hope that society in general has a better design sensibility than that.