Am I losing my design marbles?

[EclipceCreate]

Hi all, can I please have some confirmation that I'm NOT losing my design marbles? :S

A client has recently asked us to take a web site that can be previewed at the following url (note, I'm planning to slightly increase line spacing on this one):

http://www.eqwip.co.uk/preview4

And asked us to use "Papyrus" as the font, as seen at:

http://www.eqwip.co.uk/preview5

Which do you guys prefer? Incidentally, this will only apply to users of IE 4.x and above, which supports font downloading.

Russ

 

[bwglaw]

Preview 5 with the rather strange typefont would not be accessible and certainly not user-friendly if at all printer friendly

I don't think it is you losing your marbles but you need to direct your client in the right direction. At times I have been persistent with our internet clients because they don't know anything about web accessibility let alone web design in general

Jonathan

 

[Dawg]

No you are not losing your marbles. Papyrus is on the default font list for Macs, not PCs, so it might only be a problem for 95% of browsers! And it is not easy to read for humans even if the browser recognises it. The Lucida in the top right might appear a little "my-little-website" sort of home baked too.

 

The font on preview 5 looks like the type of font my 10 year old daughter would choose if she wanted to type out some boy-band lyrics from Smash Hits!

In otherwords it looks very unprofessional (and hurt my eyes!)

So no, you are not loosing your marbles! (lol)

 

[little_stork]

Hi There,
I agree it's too hard on the eyes, and makes the page look too fussy.
Regards Little_stork

 

[lesliedocherty]

Hi,

I third that, sore on the eyes, looks terrible and i would have left the site asap, terrible idea, hope you can persuade your client otherwise.

leslie

 

[Whistle Ink]

I agree with the above comments. Preview 5 is a no no!

 

[robertm]

I just like to confer and agree with the above, so No, youre not losing your marbles...

Robert

 

[cjd]

For what it's worth I don't like either; the first is boring and the second is over-fussy.

 

[newandrew]

I agree ;youre not losing your marbles

 

[weddingcrafter]

I love the Papyrus font.....





....... but not for text on a website. Agree with everyone else - it just doesn't work.

 

[REFRESHer]

Hi maybe its not your design marbles but your typography marbles.
Stick with safe fonts.

 

[CG Effect]

The Papyrus type looks as if someone very skilled with a graphics tablet drew it not neat at all. I would use Arial or Verdana. For everyone to view a style of type they all have to have it installed on their computer, research font types before using them.

 

[EclipceCreate]

That's not strictly speaking true ImageMan, don't forget that there's good ol' Microsoft WEFT, which allows you to embed fonts in a website. If I recall though, this only works on Internet Explorer 4.x and above, on the Windows platform. There's also something about this in the W3C CSS 3 specs, I think.

 

[EclipceCreate]

Incidentally, an update on the client response. Luckily they did decide to go with a more conventional font (Arial in this case). However, they did seem very upset that we'd done research to find which variant would be best received by the public.

Sounds to me a bit like Microsoft complaining that people were being allowed to beta test their beta releases!

Thanks for your feedback all,

Russ