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< The Irish Metal Forum ~ Review text. Could you handle it if I changed font? |
| The Fires of Hell |
 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:40 pm |
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I know, it's delicate.
But sans serif (arial, verdana) just doesnt cut it any more for reading text.
I want to make the reviews font bigger, and make it more like Times for ease of reading.
That should help mobile devices and full monitors alike.
Anyone have any objections? |
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| Stephen BroMalley |
| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:11 pm |
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| If you're doing anything in the name of legibility how about dropping the light text on a dark background? |
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| The Fires of Hell |
| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:13 pm |
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| I've always been against a white colour scheme... even in text boxes.... that would be a pretty big jump I reckon. Though it is indeed for legibility I want to change/resize the font. |
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| Tezcatlipoca |
| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:58 pm |
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Stephen BroMalley wrote: If you're doing anything in the name of legibility how about dropping the light text on a dark background?
It's easier on the eyes this way. |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:15 am |
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The Fires of Hell wrote: But sans serif (arial, verdana) just doesnt cut it any more for reading text.
Sorry, but WHAT?? Since when? Did you watch a 10 minute video about fonts on Vimeo or something?
If you really want to help mobile devices and full monitors, Google "responsive design". |
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| The Fires of Hell |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:42 am |
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| I think the small verdana looks a bit pokey nowadays, just. |
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| pentagrimes |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:51 am |
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| can we change the rating system to out of 10 instead of out of 5 as well while we're at it? |
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| Prolonged Spumesence |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:42 am |
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Leave the font. Sans-serif on a dark background is the best way to have things. Maybe darken the text just a little be to reduce the glare of it a bit.
Personally I'd be more worried about trying to remedy the reoccurring "No Posts Exists for this Topic" problem that seems to rear its head on a regular basis. |
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| dawals |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:58 pm |
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I prefer to see "No posts exist for this topic" in sans-serif myself. I wonder what 1349's favourite 10 fonts are  |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:12 pm |
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dawals wrote: I prefer to see "No posts exist for this topic" in sans-serif myself. I wonder what 1349's favourite 10 fonts are
I've no issues with the fonts as they are. It's generally smaller than what other forums have but it's not a bad thing. |
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| Juggz |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:43 pm |
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| I'm a bit of a Calibri man, myself, Verdana is so five years ago. |
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| Stephen Ireland |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:51 pm |
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| Basically, no. I couldn't handle it. It'd be way too far out for me. |
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| JonK |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:53 pm |
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| Much prefer sans serif myself. I'd just go for making the review font a point or two larger. |
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| Nerd |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:50 pm |
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| If the font changes i'm out of here. End of. |
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| Shunyata |
| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:33 pm |
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Size 14 papyrus with comic sans for headers.
And animated gifs for the scores.
Seeing as all metal subgenres are going retro I think the site should embrace that and strive to emulate 1996 geocities. |
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