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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: September 04, 2002 FontBitch, Defined -- "1. A person who places his or her own font preferences before those of his or her own readers. 2. An individual who honestly sees no problems with forcing everyone to read a blog or online document in 8 or 10 point fonts." (Comments: Sort of, kind of, via Joshua Kaufman.)
Reader Comments...
You know, I used to work with a FontBitch. No, wait, she was just a... Posted by: Ryan on September 5, 2002 09:15 AM
Actually, I was submitting the "make fixed fonts resizable in IE" bookmarklet, not the FontBitch definition. I was afraid that you might not know exactly what I was submitting. Perhaps it would be helpful if your news submission form had a comments field? Posted by: Joshua Kaufman on September 5, 2002 10:40 AM
Joshua, I knew what you were submitting. I just liked FontBitch better. ;-) Madman has told me several times to add a comments field. I just need to set aside some time to add it... Posted by: John S. Rhodes on September 5, 2002 11:31 AM
Microsoft is not to blame. The problem is that Font Bitches are poor designers. They lock their font size to ensure that their pages display perfectly the way they want them to. That's the real issue. Good design relies on your page layout holding up to font size changes. Simply unlocking the font fixes nothing if the layout goes funky and text overlaps itself. When I need to resize text ("CTRL-mouse wheel" in IE), and I encounter a Font Bitch, I leave. What they have to say is unimportant if they don't give a damn about the users. Posted by: Jack on September 5, 2002 12:59 PM
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