Desigers that choose non-webfonts for website design should be shot - GoFuckYourself.com

Markul · 03-01-2013, 05:39 AM

Plain as day, right in the face.

Mutt · 03-01-2013, 06:09 AM

why? modern browsers can display non-webfonts without any trouble.

k0nr4d · 03-01-2013, 06:13 AM

You can use cufont, google webfonts, etc...

Markul · 03-01-2013, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

why? modern browsers can display non-webfonts without any trouble.

I know, but they don't look the same in PSD as they do on the actual site. That can cause problems.

Markul · 03-01-2013, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

You can use cufont, google webfonts, etc...

Yea.. I did tell them, make sure you use a webfone in the initial briefing and they went: "We know what we are doing."

Yea right

CurrentlySober · 03-01-2013, 06:28 AM

Taking off my 'I like Poo' hat, and my 'I cat afford...' hat...

AND WITHOUT BEING A DELIBERATE CUNT...

Isn't this really YOUR fault, as opposed to their fault?

You are the one paying the piper after all...

Markul · 03-01-2013, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

Taking off my 'I like Poo' hat, and my 'I cat afford...' hat...

AND WITHOUT BEING A DELIBERATE CUNT...

Isn't this really YOUR fault, as opposed to their fault?

You are the one paying the piper after all...

Not really.

Meeting with client + design agency. I say: Remember to use a webfont. Design agency says: Yea sure, we know.

<time goes by>

Design agency comes back with design: "Hey client approved this, please build it".

I go: "That's not a webfont......" And then my planning goes down the drain.

But yea. Still my problem.

PornMD · 03-01-2013, 08:24 AM

Don't they know that the secret to making money online is to use a webfont in the design? Now how are you going to make money?!

Sid70 · 03-01-2013, 09:14 AM

I hate the look of CSS3 tracers, thats ugly, still prefer PNG for heading text.

fris · 03-01-2013, 09:22 AM

good typography doenst always require a webfont

Supz · 03-01-2013, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

You can use cufont, google webfonts, etc...

google webfonts is cool, especially with the google webfonts plugin for wordpress.

VladS · 03-01-2013, 10:15 AM

I've had that problem numerous times, but was able to solve it 75 - 80% of the cases. If it's not on Google's fonts, cufon is your second best bet as far as looks go.

If you simply can't do jack shit about it, send it back to design to rebuild it or search for a similar font.

Markul · 03-01-2013, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Gsx-R

I've had that problem numerous times, but was able to solve it 75 - 80% of the cases. If it's not on Google's fonts, cufon is your second best bet as far as looks go.

If you simply can't do jack shit about it, send it back to design to rebuild it or search for a similar font.

In the end, we ended up swapping fonts and had a dude do overtime on the markup. Client is happy and since guns are banned here, I ended up talking loudly on the phone with the designer and then booked a lunch with his boss in two weeks hah

Crisis averted. But we really couldn't CSS us out of that problem in any sensible way. Or so the techies told me.

Edit: I see I suck at titles. Desigers = Designers. Was angry lol

theS2O · 03-02-2013, 08:30 AM

I'm not a fan of using fonts that is not a webfont. If I'm going to use a different font. It will be for the titles or header which will be a graphic font.

CyberHustler · 03-02-2013, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

Yea.. I did tell them, make sure you use a webfone in the initial briefing and they went: "We know what we are doing."

Yea right

Find a new designer. Unless it's free, you supposed to get what you want.

Markul · 03-02-2013, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberHustler

Find a new designer. Unless it's free, you supposed to get what you want.

I'm not paying, my client is. But yea

Markul · 03-02-2013, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by theS2O

I'm not a fan of using fonts that is not a webfont. If I'm going to use a different font. It will be for the titles or header which will be a graphic font.

You have a killer portfolio man! I'll be needing some design for adult paysite/affiliate pages in a month or two. So I saved your info

Edit: you guys do NATS integration by any chance?

HomerSimpson · 03-02-2013, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

You can use cufont, google webfonts, etc...

Paul&John · 03-02-2013, 10:41 AM

yap cufonts is pretty neat

spiederman · 03-02-2013, 01:52 PM

fonts are in motion

theS2O · 03-06-2013, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

You have a killer portfolio man! I'll be needing some design for adult paysite/affiliate pages in a month or two. So I saved your info

Edit: you guys do NATS integration by any chance?

Thanks. Yeap, that should be no prob. I have a guy who does all the css/backend work for me now.

Jowebart · 03-06-2013, 10:06 AM

I like webfonts , png is old school and not good for google serch engine .. If you pick the right font is almost as same as in photoshop if you use css3 gradients

harvey · 03-07-2013, 09:14 PM

I agree there are lots of inconsistencies (which can be solved with cufon, although I'm not a big fan of it) but really.... with this way of thinking we should been using vegetable pigments on a rock. All technologies have a time of adaptation, which is worst nowadays because of competition between companies, but when 100% of the best designed sites uses custom fonts... well, there's no much room for discussion. Simple as that.

On a side note, strange how adult is becoming more and more obsolete in technology trends, exception made for a few ones who know their stuff. While the whole "adult is ahead of mainstream" motto is and always was just a myth without any basis, the last 3-4 years it became like really really conservative and anachronistic. Really weird.

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harvey Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 9,266	I agree there are lots of inconsistencies (which can be solved with cufon, although I'm not a big fan of it) but really.... with this way of thinking we should been using vegetable pigments on a rock. All technologies have a time of adaptation, which is worst nowadays because of competition between companies, but when 100% of the best designed sites uses custom fonts... well, there's no much room for discussion. Simple as that. On a side note, strange how adult is becoming more and more obsolete in technology trends, exception made for a few ones who know their stuff. While the whole "adult is ahead of mainstream" motto is and always was just a myth without any basis, the last 3-4 years it became like really really conservative and anachronistic. Really weird.