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Chris
03-01-2007, 06:59 PM
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2007/db20070226_399403.htm?campaign_id=yhoo

Can anyone agree that they are using an absolutely horrible font for the body text?
Todd W
03-01-2007, 07:53 PM
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2007/db20070226_399403.htm?campaign_id=yhoo

Can anyone agree that they are using an absolutely horrible font for the body text?

As in it's spaced to much and to "bright" to read.. or what ? It's not horrible but I don't think its perfect.. or maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing ?
Chris
03-01-2007, 07:57 PM
No the font itself, I'm not sure what it is, but it is just a hard to read font.
agua
03-01-2007, 09:05 PM
I'm pretty sure its just helvetica or arial - which are pretty much bog standard fonts - maybe its just the colour, size or line height which is making it seem odd
Chris
03-01-2007, 09:10 PM
Check in IE, I'm betting you both are using FF and it looks fine in FF. Try IE.
mobilebadboy
03-01-2007, 09:18 PM
I see no difference in IE or FF. They look identical.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mobilebadboy/businessweek.gif

And I guess I disagree, I thought it was very readable (better than some news sites I visit).
agua
03-01-2007, 09:49 PM
OK here as well :confused:

Chris - is your text all jumbled and got wierd characters in there... if that is the case then I have had this problem before when using helvetica in a style sheet... I couldn't replicate it on my machines, but the client was getting a right mess at his end.

We change the font to verdana and it was perfect.
Blue Cat Buxton
03-01-2007, 11:15 PM
I'm afraid I agree that it looks fine as well
Cutter
03-01-2007, 11:35 PM
BusinessWeek is the tabloid of business publications.
Mike
03-02-2007, 02:31 AM
Looks fine to me as well, heh :)
Chris
03-02-2007, 06:49 AM
Weird, I'll have to take a SS so you know I'm not batty.


See... its like every 3 letter is a smaller font than those around it. Only in IE7 though, in FF it looks fine.
Shawn
03-02-2007, 06:51 AM
Oh, it's weird for me too, Chris. It looks almost like it's pen writing, some areas are dark in the text, some are light. It's annoying.
Mike
03-02-2007, 09:53 AM
Doesn't look a thing like that for me :)
r2d2
03-02-2007, 10:06 AM
Looks normal for me in FF and IE6. The screen shot looks kinda like the text in the image spam mail you get, or a badly resized image (eg Paintbrush, not Photoshop).
Blue Cat Buxton
03-02-2007, 02:17 PM
I can see why you would hate that!

I wonder how many visitors Business Week is loosing because they don't reaise they have this problem - it probably looks fine to the web team designers/developers
MaxS
03-02-2007, 03:20 PM
Strange. It doesn't look like that for me; I think it may be Arial.
Xander
03-03-2007, 07:12 AM
I don't get the wierd look either, but I have got it on sites before but it was a problem with low memory on my PC.
KLB
03-03-2007, 09:33 AM
It sounds like some "creative type" specified a primary font that not all computers (or even many of us) have and in those cases the page is falling back to Ariel. It just happens that Chris is one of those "blessed" souls who has the offending font in question.
agua
03-03-2007, 03:49 PM
I just checked the style sheet and the font is specified to be helvetica or arial... I think its more likely to be a font ID problem - but I have no idea how they work.
rpanella
03-03-2007, 06:27 PM
I don't get the wierd look either, but I have got it on sites before but it was a problem with low memory on my PC.

This is what I would suspect too. I used to have similar problems with my old computer where when memory would be very low or a windows process had crashed, certain fonts and such would become jumbled like this.

Do you still see the problem after restarting your computer Chris?
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Kyle
03-04-2007, 02:24 AM
Chris, IE7?
Chris
03-04-2007, 09:05 AM
yes
Kyle
03-04-2007, 09:37 AM
There are significant changes from IE6 to IE7, with regards to CSS. It's weird, just Microsoft being irritating again. I don't know enough about it, but if you search on wordpress and ie7 into Google, you'll see what i mean.
mark1
03-04-2007, 04:15 PM
you gotta love the inconsistencies between IE and FF, and they come in all flavors. For example I developed a flash site with a lot of preloaders for pictures. In IE everything works fine, in FF two preloaders won't work. I double checked the code a thousand times. The code is ok, but FF refuses to show 2 preloaders :flare:. I searched for known bugs with no luck, this stuff drives me nuts ! :sick: