This is the last straw. Fashionable designers seem to prefer fonts that make my eyes itchy. Does anyone know how to disable downloadable fonts in Firefox?
I've tried setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false, but they're still getting downloaded and used.
EDIT: A browser restart seemed to be necessary - flushing the cache and a full page refresh wasn't sufficient. It looks like that about:config option does work after all.
It looks fine on my Chrome/Linux but that doesn't really say much because Linux fonts are so configurable.
I'd guess anyone following the Windows school of font hinting will have problems in this brave new world of web fonts because they'll only look good if someone with the requisite skills has spent a great deal of time hinting them for the pixel sizes used.
If, like another commenter, you see non-core fonts as "thin" (or "spindly" etc.) then this is probably the cause.
On Apple machines, or the way I set up Ubuntu machines (which the default seems to get closer to as time goes by) they basically ignore that hinting information, even if present and just pretend they're printing on a high pixel density device and let anti-aliasing sort it out.
That's the second thing he mentions, but the first is something he said on his personal blog that might have affected his work and that he got in trouble at work for, at least that's how I'm reading it.
Fresh from being chastised for expressing my personal opinion, on my personal blog and other strictly personal venues, about matters that may, or may not, ever intersect the realm of the impersonal a.k.a. corporate, I take a detour into the strictly, perhaps overly, personal, viz. how to talk to my own children about the dangers of drugs that I myself have taken — both medicinally and recreationally — and the many others that I have not, only to receive emails and IMs via impersonal a.k.a. corporate media from strangers-but-strictly-speaking-coworkers asking if everything is OK over there in personal-land.
"impersonal a.k.a. corporate" ??
"strictly, perhaps overly, personal, viz...." ??
"impersonal a.k.a. corporate" - a SECOND time ??
"strangers-but-strictly-speaking-coworkers" ??
This tone of speech encapsulates everything that I hate about self-important psuedo-intellectuals discussing literary "theory" in the English departments of universities.
It's verbose, long-winded, and intentionally difficult to read - all in an attempt to sound intelligent and deep, while actually covering up a paucity of any original thought.
After that one "sentence", I stopped reading.
Clear writing is relatively easy, and expresses a respect for one's audience.
Long winded bull shit (like the above) expresses contempt for one's audience.
It doesn't express contempt for one's audience, it expresses contempt for the aforementioned "strangers-but-strictly-speaking-coworkers", and it does it very well in my opinion. It's a literary device; it's not an entry in a technical manual.
Huh, you're right. It is definitely grammatically correct, now that I look at it. It's unquestionably rambling, though, and (I should hope) an example of bad style.
I've tried setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false, but they're still getting downloaded and used.
EDIT: A browser restart seemed to be necessary - flushing the cache and a full page refresh wasn't sufficient. It looks like that about:config option does work after all.