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On 03/11/2011 09:25 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> Based on your above comments, I get the feeling that you don't find
> typography important at all.  But typography is at least as important as
> any other design decision, and most people do care about design.
>
> If you create a web site for some company, you want to design it so it
> looks professional and is easy to use.  If I write a scientific paper, I
> want it to look professional and be easy to read.  And although you may
> not have a conscious opinion about typography, your eyes and brain
> certainly do.  Try reading 20 or 30 pages worth of heavy material,
> perhaps interspersed with a bunch of mathematical formulas here and
> there, as rendered by a web browser.  I guarantee you, your eyes and
> brain will be a lot more exhausted than they would have been if the
> document were professionally typeset.
>
> I wish the designers of web sites and browsers would pay more attention
> to typesetting issues and spend less time on bloating the web with Flash
> animations and JavaScript misfeatures.

I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would care for 
our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information (white backgrounds).

Denis
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