Re:Zilla Slab: A common language through a shared font
by Jemaclus on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:50PM
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Well, I guess my point is that it wouldn't have added or taken anything away from the experience. I notice color and contrast a lot more than I notice typeface. The number of times I've said to myself "this font choice is awful" is pretty small, and is limited to relatively crazy fonts. I wouldn't notice the difference between Zilla Slab and any other slab font, other than the special colon/i thing they did. I don't even know what a slab font is, and I couldn't pick one out of a lineup of random fonts.
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Re:Zilla Slab: A common language through a shared font
by phailhaus on Monday August 07, 2017 @05:12PM
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> Well, I guess my point is that it wouldn't have added or taken anything away from the experience
You already said that you would have felt like something was off. That's detracting from the experience even though you don't consciously know why.
A ton of effort goes into choosing the fonts of the hundred different things you see every day, so you've been trained to unconsciously associate different fonts with different feelings. You don't need to be able to pick a font out of a lineup in order for font choice to affect your experience. If I spend enough time on Mozilla's site, I'm going to start associating Zilla Slab with internet-related things, even though I still can't distinguish slab fonts. Your brain's good at things like that.