Saying that the people who picked the font stack should be able to defend their selection of font stack and their ability to design for all customers with it isn't avoiding the question; it's sending the question to the ONLY people who can sensibly answer it.
Keep in mind that a) the design team don't spend a lot of time on this mailing list other than Brandon, and b) it's the weekend, most of them probably aren't even aware you've asked a question yet.
Please have a little patience, and assume good faith.
-- brion
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 October 2013 19:47, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
wrote:
OK ... and the tradeoff of the designer assuming the non-free font, and it just happening to look like garbage with any free font?
David, you should ask the designers why they chose the stack in
VectorBeta,
rather than assuming they ignored free/open platforms. If you look,
you'll
notice that they took the time on MobileFrontEnd and in VectorBeta to examine what fonts were most widely available and look good on free platforms, and specify them.
That's ... precisely evading the question.
- d.
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