bobarcher Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hi, I am breaking my eyeballs with the new font on photo.net...please revert back to Arial regards, Bob Archer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronaldo_r Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Georgia font, used to be on my AMEX statements... I guess the PN gurus enjoy how some digits are subscript and some characters superscript. Very cool indeed, for the first 15 minutes of reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_marc_liotier Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I agree that the new font is barely readable. That is a shame because I considered the old one very readable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaromeo Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 agree! amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_marc_liotier Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Maybe serif/sans could be an option in the user account ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmck Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Does <strong>anyone</strong> prefer the new font over the old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 <I>Does anyone prefer the new font over the old?</I><P> I sure prefer it over the sans-serif font that was experimented with yesterday. <P> Sans-serif fonts are great for small amounts of text in brochures etc. But not good for large bodies of text where readability is important. Serifs provide subconcious visual clues helping in character recognition. That's why newspapers almost always use a typeface with serifs. www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_knight Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I have no problem with the present font, I can live with this format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former P.N Member Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Almost all browsers allow the user to set the default font and use it in lieu of whatever that page is set at. You can then make the font what face and size you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaromeo Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 this font gives cancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm honestly not sue what's wrong with the font. Maybe firefox just renders it nicer or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_kallet Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Dick Tope, I went to Safari>Preferences>Appearance and changed the Standard font to Arial Black 21. Wow! Now the pages like those in the Large Type books. There's another box called Fixed-width font. I'm not sure what that means, but at least I'm off to a good start. <happy eyes> --Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squareframe Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 golly gee ... if you don't like the font and are using Firefox, simply uncheck the option that disallows forcing of ones font selection. you can have it any way you want ... even the Courier New (yes, how bland) that I am using now. or Tempus Sans ITC ... for those of us dreaming of uncharted South Pacific isles. of course, it causes complications with other sites perhaps. ah, you mean there is life beyond photo.net? daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_marc_liotier Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yes, that is the point : the body text font should be left to default to whatever the browser wants. Some people like serif, others like sans-serif. The browser allows the user to choose his favorite default, the site should respect that and not try to force his choice of font upon the user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znabal Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Thanks everyone, learn something new everyday....set my fonts in firefox and now I'm a happy camper in Arial. For me, serif text gives me a headache and makes my eyes work overtime to overcome my astigmatism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaromeo Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 how do you do this in firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znabal Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Jerry - go to: Tools->Options->Content(tab)->Fonts & Colors Advanced Menu where you choose the fonts and uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts..." have fun - jeffl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_dunn2 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 <p>Georgia is nice enough at larger type sizes, but at the smaller size specified in the CSS, it becomes one pixel thick and it's uuuuuuuuugly. I much, much, much preferred yesterday's sans serif font. I tried the site with 3.5 different browsers* just to make sure it wasn't something screwy in my browser settings; all 3.5 display it exactly the same.</p> <p>I realize yesterday's sans serif font caused problems for a number of people with poor vision, so I'm not going to ask that we go back to it, even though it was much cleaner looking. But surely there must be a better serif font we could use ...</p> <p>*: Seamonkey and Firefox share so much code that it's not fair to say they're entirely separate.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaromeo Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 can you change it in IE? BTW thanks for help Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_marcus1 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I liked the sans-serif font better, but Georgia is also OK. Unfortunately, the text is smaller than it was before the redesign. I'm using Opera and can easily make it bigger by hitting the "+" key, but I'm not sure everyone else has that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn w callahan Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 To do this in IE: Tools->Internet Options->Accessibility on the General tab->check Ignore Font Styles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronaldo_r Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Shawn, IE then defaults to Times, not much better, so I'll stay with Georgia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil_messenger Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 It would be better if the site didn't force a font at all: I am not sure why the decision has been made to do this, it seams to be against good web practice, it certainly is against the general rules for accessibility (I refer the web designer to Web Accessibility Initiative at http://www.w3.org/WAI/), but if you are to force a font, please use sans-serif as this is much more readable for people with conditions such as dyslexia. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_dunn2 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 <p>I'm currently using the site on a platform that doesn't have Georgia, and found something odd: if you don't have the serif typeface specified, you get <em>sans serif</em>. That's what the style sheet says:</p> <blockquote>font-family: georgia, arial, sans-serif</blockquote> <p>If there is a strong desire to make the site show up in a serif font, why are the two backup choices both sans serif?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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