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My personal guide about web typography: Don't change the user's default text spacing, indentation, justification. Respect his and his system's choices.
by andun 8y ago
My personal guide about web typography:
Don't change the user's default text spacing, indentation, justification. Respect his and his system's choices.
- paulddraper 8y ago> Don't change the user's default justification. I don't know about you, but I set all web pages to be right justified. /s
- hazz99 8y agoI'm willing to bet that 99% of people don't set this, and the changes are improvements.
- Already__Taken 8y agoWhat do you mean? Most computers on the planet have en-US Keyboards attached....
- detritus 8y agoAs much right as you have to read content as you wish, the publisher has to present it as she wishes. This is a guide for people who want to make use of thousands of years of accrued typographic culture to get their message across usefully and beautifully. - ed Well, perhaps a thousand or so years. I'm unsure how deep into Roman times good 'type' style lettering stretches.
- Sharlin 8y agoIt would be great if the system's default choices were something more reasonable than what some random Netscape engineer decided circa 1995. The user's choices? I'm sure there are dozens of users on the net who have customized their browser's default styles.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoYes, we should absolutely respect the settings in the "typography" preference pane that all browsers have, where all users lovingly set their preferred text spacing, indentation, and justification. Oh wait! There isn't one. In fact, most users not only haven't explicitly made these choices, they can't explicitly make these choices. Are you arguing that the "system's choices" are some bastion of well-considered design sensibility that we violate at our peril? Really? Nuts to that.