Timeline for Instructions to give a print designer looking to use non-system fonts for websites
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| May 3, 2014 at 2:34 | answer | added | Krazer | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 22:14 | answer | added | DA01 | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | DA01 | @gramps FWIW, you can adjust the kerning, tracking and leading via CSS. The catch is that most print designers don't comprehend the fact that the web isn't a fixed canvas, so a lot of their specifications don't make a whole lot of sense in that context. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | DA01 | "The internet isn't made up of PhotoShop files". Sadly, many print designers refuse to believe that no matter how many times we explain it to them. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 21:20 | answer | added | Dom | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | cockypup | Another thing to take into account is that a tracking value (letter-spacing in CSS) that results in fractional pixels will be rounded in Chrome to full pixels, so the designer has to either be less picky about the tracking in Chrome or use a value that results in full pixels. Also, tracking individual letters is quite easy to do for print but agonizingly painful in CSS. You could tell them this in advance so they don't create designs that relay in tracking (an advisable and common practice in print design). | |
| May 2, 2014 at 15:35 | answer | added | albert | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | user9447 | It doesn't matter what fonts are for "web" or not.. Either way the designer in the design process will alter them. This is where you need to communicate and teach them that web is nothing like print design and modifications to the fonts are not yet supported by the browser. | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 13:36 | comment | added | learningtech | I haven't communicated that back to them because some people have told me there are some fonts that are meant for the web, and others aren't. When i look at the fonts that were designed "for the web", I agree something about it makes it more ledgeable and pleasant. I dont understand the "science" behind what makes a font more suitable for the web, so i'm unable to articulate it to the client. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 20:39 | comment | added | user9447 | Well by your post no matter what font they use they are still going to adjust the kerning, tracking and leading which can't be modified yet in CSS. That said its not going to matter what fonts you suggest for them to use and have you communicated that back to them? | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 5:20 | comment | added | learningtech | the designers create a psd file that has many layers/folders. Each layer depicts a particular page of a website. I receive the PSD file and code the HTML, CSS and Javascript to create webpages depicted in the PSD files. The designers are not happy with the quality of fonts that appear on the html pages I create. They complain that the fonts on the web are not as smooth, or the letter spacing needs be half a pixel smaller (not possible in CSS) etc... | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 4:57 | comment | added | user9447 | I'm sorry but I am lost in your post. Are the designers designing a website in photoshop or print designs and asking you to create something in relation to the print. I ask this because you state that the designs look good, but the end product they aren't happy with. Can you post an example? | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 8:16 | answer | added | MephistonX | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 7:31 | history | edited | learningtech | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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