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Claudio González
Claudio González
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September 13, 2012
Question

Typeface choice gone

  • September 13, 2012
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The Advanced Editor window has experienced some changes today. One of the unwanted ones is that the hability to choose typefaces is gone, or extremely well hidden.

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    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2012

    I see what Claudio sees in post #25.

    And it is quite disturbing to write in Times. It even applies to the Advanced Editor.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 18, 2012

    Jacob Bugge wrote:

    I see what Claudio sees in post #25.

    And it is quite disturbing to write in Times. It even applies to the Advanced Editor.

    Maybe this is the reason why they removed the possibility of using different fonts?

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    September 18, 2012

    Note that half the fonts people are trying to use here - e.g., Calibri - don't come out right on an iPhone either.

    -Noel

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    September 16, 2012

    Claudio, I was once critical of your choice to edit your posts to forcibly use Verdana, but I have started to come 'round.  I'm sorry for any criticism you may have felt from me in the past (though to be accurate I was arguing at the time in favor of a better font than the current Adobe-Clean that is in use here).

    Adobe-Clean is a poorly designed font to be the public face of a computer software company, because, well, it's just bad for use to express high tech stuff, and it's not even properly being displayed by the forum software (italics are botched by Typekit for all Internet Explorer browsers, which instead just the skew the Normal face to oblique).  Consider this text in both Regular and Italic variants:

    With Adobe-Clean regular, it's fairly easy to \see\ which of |these| things is /surrounded/ by what kinds of special characters (backslash, vertical bar, forward slash)...

    When italics are used, it's not quite /so/ terribly |easy| to pick \out\ the differences, however.

    For you, Claudio, I have attempted to use HTML to format the majority of this post in Verdana.  Whether I have succeeded will be revealed after posting.

    -Noel

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    September 17, 2012

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    I have attempted to use HTML to format the majority of this post in Verdana.

    The easiest way to force formatting into posts is by using an external editor (Word, Illustrator, …), format it the way you like it, then copy/paste it into the forum editor.

    P.S. I am using Calibri for this post.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 18, 2012

    This is just a test to see if posting in the HTML editor makes a difference or not.   This is the much maligned Comic Sans.


    And your message saying that your scheme seemed to work seems to have vanished in the internet space...

    Alec Molloy
    Alec Molloy
    Inspiring
    September 13, 2012

    I don't know about you, but I think this a great improvement. Typographic consistancy greatly improves readability in documents.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 13, 2012

    It is if the font used is easily legible on screen at the small size employed in these forums. Which isn't the case of our new Adobe font.

    Alec Molloy
    Alec Molloy
    Inspiring
    September 13, 2012

    Have you tried the page magnification? This can be done by pressing cmd/ctrl and the plus symbol.

    I don't have a problem, but that's just my young eyes. I can definitely understand how many users could have an issue with this.

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