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getchman
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:53 pm Reply with quote
Did someone change the font? everything looks slightly squished now. I didn't change any settings that I'm aware of and my computer is at normal zoom
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Calathan
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:19 pm Reply with quote
The forum font is clearly different for me now as well, so something definitely got changed today.
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Alan45
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:52 pm Reply with quote
See the typography thread in the Community forum
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Shiroi Hane
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:07 pm Reply with quote
The change has now been applied for non-subscribers also. Since they can't access the community forum the answer is in the changelog:
Dan42 wrote:
Font have been normalized to Arial/Helvetica throughout the site.
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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 4:36 pm Reply with quote
Looks awful.
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Dessa



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 4:52 pm Reply with quote
Is there any way to have an option that we can use (or does anyone know a way to do it through Chrome)? This font badly hurts my eyes.
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Top Gun



Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:07 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, this just looks really bad right now. It's almost like the font kerning isn't displaying properly.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, gotta say it looks bad too. What was wrong with the old font?
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killjoy_the



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:55 pm Reply with quote
It's a little jarring because of the apparent different font size but after one day I got used to it.
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Haterater



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 1:56 am Reply with quote
Easier for me to read, just the style font I'll have to get used to. Displays well on-screen.
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Cam0



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:01 am Reply with quote
This wasn't an April Fools' joke?
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Wandering Samurai



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:59 am Reply with quote
Have to say I don't like this font either. Hurts my eyes.
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Tempest
I Run this place.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:31 am Reply with quote
Apologies to those of you who don't like it. Overall we've received so few comments about it, we need to assume that it doesn't bother most people.

The change was made in-line with recommendation for a better web-experience, unfortunately there is no such thing as a "1-size fits all" font.

Right now we've pretty much frozen all development on anything but the encyclopedia, but I'll add user-selected fonts to the to-do list.

-t
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Alan45
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:53 am Reply with quote
Speaking of the encyclopedia, how is it coming?

The encyclopedia has to be a significant draw for the site. It is what brought me here a long time ago. At that time I still could get news from the magazines I bought (RIP). I used the encyclopedia for a few years before I looked at the rest of the site. I didn't register until I wanted to post.
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Tempest
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:49 pm Reply with quote
Alan45 wrote:
Speaking of the encyclopedia, how is it coming?


I really don't like saying too much about it because every time I say "soon," it ends up taking much longer than expected.... but "soon."
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