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@joulee I hadn’t heard of her either, until I ended up using that exact article in a design this weekend…
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@mikeindustries @jillyface I believe she has mastered the art of the invisible reply. Either that, or she’s directly blaming you.
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@mikeindustries Seems like every company eventually ends up wanting to intentionally violate their own brand guidelines.
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@mikeindustries Ok. Clearly time to kill the WWND from our criteria.
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@PaulAdamDavis @JCroft @mdo I must be spending too much time parenting. Because I read that as being great in chicken diapers.
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@mikeindustries Interesting. But doesn’t look official. The swoosh looks foreshortened. Maybe just an optical illusion?
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@MikeInLAPomade I’m feeling a new nickname for you… The Canadian Pomadian.
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@benvenAdi That would reek of @mdo if it were in a more modern frame.
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@gracie @MikeInLAPomade Not from me. From my avatar.
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@jordanekay If you left it at the default, (Menlo 11pt?) it’s probably a decent difference. Might be hard to get used to it.
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@attaboy @mikeindustries Wow. How could you possibly think the bloated type above looks good? Looks like a bad flat-bed scanner. ;-)
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@shaneadams @mikeindustries It might be especially noticeable for Helvetica Neue. Thus the big difference for twitter.com.
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@shaneadams @mikeindustries And? Thumbs up?
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@matias Right. You actually get to see screen type as it was designed. At least if the size isn’t too small.
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@simplebits Grinning… “Shots through the heart”
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@daveygm No, because I rarely switch between the two. Can’t imagine it has much effect at all.
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@mager Possibly what you’re accustomed to. It looks fine to me.
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@matias I sense you converting. ;-) Have you tried news sites with lots of text?
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@luxuryluke Wake up the hamsters. There be pixels to light up.
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@matias Once you recover from the eye burnout on the right, left is so much better. You’ll wonder how you ever accepted ON as a setting.
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@smoofles So you never use bold type then?
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@luxuryluke @mikeindustries @adel No, all displays. Or rather, all non-CRT displays.
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@davidbellona Yep. Comparing to Photoshop’s Strong and Crisp is probably equivalent to LCD smoothing on and off.
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@sm @mikeindustries All you need to do is follow the instructions in the original tweet. ;-)
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@mikeindustries Remember that you’re partially swayed by what you’re accustomed to seeing though.
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@tomcarmony @adel @mikeindustries Now to figure out a campaign that grabs the attention of (and sways) decision makers at Apple…
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@mdo Same thing happened last time I suggested it.
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@stop @mezzoblue @mikeindustries @adel I’ll still choose bold when bold is appropriate, regardless of how it looks with smoothing on or off.
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@caryl_shaw Regardless, wow. Maelstrom. I remember playing that for hours on my Mac in a tiny SF studio (during the HotWired years).
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@mikeindustries @adel That said, there are definitely fonts that are too thin to be displayed properly at small sizes.
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@mikeindustries @adel Nah. Once you go off, you realize it’s all better. And then you’ll see screenshots with it on, and cringe.
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@adel Ah, we’re gaining another enlightened convert. @mikeindustries still seems to be a holdout.
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@adel @mikeindustries There are many other examples where the bowls of bold characters fill in (with smoothing turned on).
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@adel @mikeindustries Aha. See. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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@adel @mikeindustries @ntakayama No, I don’t see an obvious difference.
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@jodyferry @mdo @davidbellona @bhaggs No – that went away when #newtwitter got replaced.
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@mdo @davidbellona @bhaggs If I recall correctly, we started with a basic 960 grid, but then ended up modifying/tweaking it quite a bit.
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@blowery Yeah, I know this is subjective. Unfortunately, you’ve gotten used to the bloated version. ;-)
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@DrPizza Whether LCD smoothing is on or off, type is still anti-aliased. Setting just changes the method.
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@jordanekay @mikeindustries @ntakayama Turning LCD smoothing off makes screen type display as it was designed. Keeping it on thickens it up.
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@XanderPlooy Time to change the default in Eclipse. ;-)
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@mikeindustries @ntakayama Nope. Improves both non/retina displays. I have no idea why that smoothing option exists, nor why it defaults ON.
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@manuel Can’t figure that out. Especially a smoothing technique that bloats type so obviously.
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@reyner Welcome to the world of screen type as it was designed.
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@rpmcb I still have not been able to figure out why it exists, nor why it’s on by default.
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@Stammy It’s a sacrifice that I am not willing to make. I like to be able to read screen text. ;-)
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If you’re on a Mac, go to SysPrefs > General & uncheck Use LCD font smoothing. Restart apps. Rejoice that type is no longer a bloated mess.
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@karrisaarinen @mdo @maccman I just can’t stand looking at text that gets that bloated. It’s not at all what text is supposed to look like.