andyharl

Just dug up these links too. This comment on the Reddit thread may explain why https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/2uzas7/i_found_out_th...

> Other people’s bodies and other people’s love are not something that can be taken nor even something that can be earned—they can be given freely, by choice, or not.

This

This is really the problem. Many fonts are poorly hinted and not designed with small sizes on a screen in mind.

Pretty sure that he was being constructive. Did you look at the code?

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." ~ Pablo Picasso

All these interfaces are pillaging the Bauhaus! Shame on them! Shame Shame Shame! (-;

http://www.effectiveui.com/blog/2013/04/26/an-historical-per...

In all seriousness though, there isn't any original design. To think that the goal of design is to snatch something from thin air in moments of lighting like brilliance is a gross misconception. Designing is solving problems.

I don't think it is cynical. This is a new trendy style. In 3 years, everyone will be complaining about flat design, hipster mustaches, and wishing we had more gradients and glossy reflections.

Now i'm being cynical. ;)

Justified text is fine in printed material when a certain amount of control can be exercised to make sure that terrible things don't happen.

Browsers are horrible at justifying text.

I agree that lots of type is set too small. Trying to create global rules for design when clearly something like font size needs to be addressed on a case by case basis depending on what font you are using is not a way to solve the issue.

There is nothing anyone is designing that is original.