August 14th, 2009
Windows Theme Project (Progress Report) #2
Progress:
- Wireframes for menubar handling in various configuration (almost complete)
- Wireframes for toolbar handling in various configuration (almost complete)
- Mockup iterations/revisions (started)
Next Steps:
- Finish mockup iterations (next week)
- AddOns extensibility/discoverability ideas (next week)
Not much visible progress this week. I will be blogging about the wireframes for Menubar and Toolbar handling within the proposed changes soon.
Still on target to have my current list wrapped up by next week. After that probably more rounds of discussion and hopefully on to implementation talks during the work week.
Reference: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Windows_Theme_Revamp
Tags: Progress Report Theme Windows
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Hmm … the fonts of this blog are barely readable on Windows. It looks just terrible. If you chose these fonts, you probably don’t even use Windows yourself … but designing the Windows theme??
They look decent on Windows 7. What version of Windows are you using?
Looks fine on XP as well (maybe better than 7): http://www.stephenhorlander.com/images/random/blog-font.png
Well, yes … it looks like that on XP too. That is quite difficult to read for me, so I thought that you did not make it look like that intentionally. The glyphs touch each other, they are not properly aligned (e and c goes below the baseline), and they’re full of pixel-spines. It doesn’t seem like the designer meant this font to look like this, or to be used at this size on Windows. (Of course at large sizes it looks good.) These things are of course subjective, but I would be surprised if it turned out that I were the only one who finds this look positively irritating (because of the difficulties caused in reading).
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7964/42032778.png
Sometimes I think this whole @font-face thing will do more harm than good for usability and accessibility…
True, it isn’t ideal at that size. I was trying to find a nicer font I could use with @font-face. I will probably change it to something more legible at smaller sizes. Thanks!
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