Additional fonts for the forum?

[Tanaara]

I for one would very much appreciate having alternate fonts to use. No, not the monsters out there and I will agree that there are way too many

But the famous four of classical typesetting: Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana and Helvetica ( though Lucida Console, Century Gothic, and Verdana would be greatly appreciated as well.)

[The Tofu Islands]

I don’t think that it would alter readability too much. If people feel like making posts unreadable, they can already do it with bold/underline/italic, colours, sizes, and, of course, images. Apart from silliness in F7, I don’t think there’d be that much of a difference. On the other hand, I can vaguely recall that there have been times when I’ve wanted a monospace font. As far as choices go, I’d go for just serif, sans, and mono. Although as long as long as Comic Sans isn’t included I won’t really mind.

[Glen-Rhodes]

People strongly in favor of are assuming users as a whole (there are always exceptions) would be capable of using said extra fonts without dragging us into a veritable visual hell. Have you seen some of the monstrosities out there where too much free rein is given to folks without a basic understanding on how to pull it off well? Dare I quote Myspace and other such easy-bake personal website offerings as a glaring example of internet horror?

Come on.

There's plenty of different ways of using existing formatting that can _drag you into a veritable visual hell.

Hasn't seemed to have happened yet.

One can always type something in whatever font desired and link it as a pic. *shrugs* Again, its all fluff. Not necessary to discussion or debate, not necessary to decent writing, and not necessary to implement when it can be achieved by other means readily available to most.

That's such a hassle. I wanted to say "what about the 64kers?" but those don't exist anymore. Still, typing a post as an image, just so you can use fonts? How is that any different than having font bbcodes?

[Flibbleites]

People strongly in favor of are assuming users as a whole (there are always exceptions) would be capable of using said extra fonts without dragging us into a veritable visual hell. Have you seen some of the monstrosities out there where too much free rein is given to folks without a basic understanding on how to pull it off well? Dare I quote Myspace and other such easy-bake personal website offerings as a glaring example of internet horror?

Come on.

There's plenty of different ways of using existing formatting that can _drag you into a veritable visual hell.

Hasn't seemed to have happened yet.

You must have missed seeing "retina scraping orange text guy."

[Respubliker]

Definitely needs a Cthulhu font.

[Sarzonia]

As a former graphic designer myself, I would only hope that giving players additional fonts doesn't lead to seeing six or seven fonts being used where one or two would suffice.

Of course, you could always establish a new font or font/colour scheme to signify sarcasm. Then again, that would be less code and more getting people to accept a convention.

[Rejistania]

Since fonts are not OS independent, I don't think additional fonts would be a good or even mediocre idea.

[Glen-Rhodes]

You must have missed seeing "retina scraping orange text guy."

Must've not lasted too long. Which tends to be the pattern when you can't read their posts.

Since fonts are not OS independent, I don't think additional fonts would be a good or even mediocre idea.

There is a select group of fonts that certainly are OS independent.

[Bears Armed]

Of course, you could always establish a new font or font/colour scheme to signify sarcasm. Then again, that would be less code and more getting people to accept a convention.

That was tried in the USA, back in the'20s or '30s, by Mencken(?): His 'Ironics' looked like Italics, but sloping the other way...

[The Most Glorious Hack]

That was tried in the USA, back in the'20s or '30s, by Mencken(?): His 'Ironics' looked like Italics, but sloping the other way...

Indeed he did. That magnificent bastard.

[Ardchoille]

But the famous four of classical typesetting: Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana and Helvetica <snip>

I agree with you so often, you must be a genius.

So much can be done with these four. It's not a matter of "what's the use of them, we don't need extra fonts for clarity". They're beautiful. If it can be done without causing server problems or slowing anything down, it gives folk another simple creative field to play in. Playing makes happy users. Happy users are good for websites that need advertising.

[Lord-General Drache]

Opposed, as it decreases readability.

I agree. While the idea sounds good in theory by allowing RPers to more easily sort out internal versus exteral comments, and OOC vs IC, I can see it being horribly, horribly abused site wide with posts containing a choice selection of the fonts.