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Re:iOS 7 by mikeash on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @01:59PM (#5869491)
What a bizarre setting. If that's "enhance text legibility", then the "off" position is "make text harder to read, please"?
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Re:iOS 7 by sp332 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:00PM (#5869907)
"Off" means "prettier".
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Re:iOS 7 by mikeash on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:56AM (#5874362)
Good design gives you a peak of usability and aesthetics. If you need a switch to let you prefer one over the other, then I think you've done it wrong.
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Re:iOS 7 by sp332 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:02AM (#5874392)
Usability and aesthetics are both subjective. For some portion of the population, you will always be "doing it wrong."
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Re:iOS 7 by Flying_Dwarf on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:19PM (#5870057)
Prettier? "Off" means "Make my font look as ugly as Parse's logo".
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Re:iOS 7 by sp332 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:27PM (#5870113)
You realize it's the same font slightly bolder, right? Are you sure you scaled the image 100% to compare them, and your browser didn't shrink the image down to fit in your window or something?
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Re:iOS 7 by Flying_Dwarf on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:18PM (#5870047)
You just made the most important comment in this entire thread. This should be the top post. Apple: your move.
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