i'm the new font

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New font
	Wow its bad
	Yeah it sucks
	Agreed, its p bad
	i like it!!

Farecoal: Oct 15, 2011; There he go

wow im awful. thanks lowtax.

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:32

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 07:34

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:38

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

you suck

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:39

Farecoal: Oct 15, 2011; There he go

sometimes it is okay to hate change

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:40

Kirk: Sep 22, 2003

basically fonts are for idiots

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:45

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

who the gently caress keeps messing with the sylesheet anyway? and why?

presumably lowtax is paying someone for this poo poo

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:46

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

infernal machines posted:

who the gently caress keeps messing with the sylesheet anyway? and why?

presumably lowtax is paying someone for this poo poo

its lowtax

hes paying himself

in comedy gold

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:47

Kirk: Sep 22, 2003

sa has to stay fresh as it nears its 20th anniversary. just wait until you see all the new Content and Media

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:47

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i like font's and i don't like this.

yospos should license typkit for posting.

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:50

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

its not the worst font as far as i can see. the one in the posting window is bad tho

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:51

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

SO DEMANDING posted:

its lowtax

hes paying himself

in comedy gold

lowtax, having run out of potable water in his midwestern command centre, has to survive of goon's rage tears

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:52

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

the hover menu with forums links broke though, i may never escape yospos again

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:53

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

use helvetica, lowtax

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:53

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

infernal machines posted:

who the gently caress keeps messing with the sylesheet anyway?

radiums enemy posted:

The main problem is that the CSS should be edited in the forum code, but I'm the only one who can do that and there's no way I can deploy the forum code every time someone wants a little change made. The files have to reside on seven different servers and are subject to a number of different caches which makes editing those files a nightmare even for me. So someone before me made a stub file on a separate FTP server that admins can edit to change the forum CSS, which is why it's always edited live and you see all kinds of weird rear end problems when someone is editing something. It's a terrible scenario but it's what we're stuck with for now.

Lowtax posted:

Mobile legibility and consistency. Previously the forums were a hosed up blend of Verdana and Arial, seemingly chosen at random, and I wanted to unify everything with the same font face, and I figured if I was going to go all out, I might as well switch to something that is easier to read on tablets and mobile devices.

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:53

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

gently caress it. just commit, use comic sans for everything

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:54

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

awful.app unaffected, don't care

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:59

Farecoal: Oct 15, 2011; There he go

lowtax has to keep the forums "hip" and "cool" for those youngsters with thier smartphones

Posted from my android phone :lol:

# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:59

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

lol @ live editing the css in a production environment through a rube goldeberg machine. no wonder lowtax has so much trouble with dev turnover.

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:02

Doc Block: Apr 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Hey, here's an idea: what if you could have different font sizes, or even different fonts, when viewing SA on a mobile browser? I know, it seems crazy, huh?

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:13

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

I don't see it. Did I miss it?

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:13

Farecoal: Oct 15, 2011; There he go

akadajet posted:

I don't see it. Did I miss it?

phone posting so maybe they changed it back but idk

next up: lowtax moves sa offices to san jose

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:18

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

looks like rear end

mostly not monospaced

euughhh how do i change this

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:24

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

it's been changing constantly and will break differently depending on what browser you're using

loving radium spent 10 years building a minefield and now lowtax is trying to convince some poor sod to go and janitor the mines a bit

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:25

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

lowtax acquihired by Facebook for his community skills, SA to require FB logins with real names

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:25

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

that would never work. everyone here is named james

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:26

Doc Block: Apr 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

radiums enemy posted:

The main problem is that the CSS should be edited in the forum code, but I'm the only one who can do that and there's no way I can deploy the forum code every time someone wants a little change made. The files have to reside on seven different servers and are subject to a number of different caches which makes editing those files a nightmare even for me. So someone before me made a stub file on a separate FTP server that admins can edit to change the forum CSS, which is why it's always edited live and you see all kinds of weird rear end problems when someone is editing something. It's a terrible scenario but it's what we're stuck with for now.

There is no reason whatsoever for any of the CSS to be in the forums code. Radium was loving horrible.

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:30

Ator: Oct 1, 2005

whenever i remote desktop to my work machine from home, it fucks up the fonts for any application running

so when i come in to work the next day, Chrome is rendering everything all pixellated and ugly as poo poo for some reason. shut down Chrome, restart it, and it's fixed. i don't know why Windows does this

anyway, that's what i thought happened when browsing the forums this morning. but i guess this new font is normal?

thanks for reading my story

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:39

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

all windows does is disable sub-pixel rendering over RDP, since there's no way of knowing what it's being displayed on you can't ensure that cleartype will even be legible. chrome just keeps using the non-cleartype rendering after the session ends

# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:43