October 1, 2003

Pix and Font Virus Proliferates

The astute Michael at 2blowhards.com nails down the current plague of eyewash trumping lucidity.

Still, the Quark-and-Photoshop revolution has delivered some -- OK, many --evils to us too. Foremost among them, as far as I'm concerned, is the vogue for what's known as "reversed-out" type -- white (or light) type set over black (or dark) backgrounds. Have you noticed how common reversed-out text is these days? It's everywhere. Type on top of dark photos, type on top of color blocks and swirls.

The eyes boggle -- which can be exciting and/or cool. What's not cool, IMHO, is when the eye-boggle goes on too long.

About three nanoseconds from where we're sitting, Michael. We can't hit the back button quicker than that.

Posted by Van der Leun at October 1, 2003 10:01 AM
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"About three nanoseconds from where we're sitting, Michael. We can't hit the back button quicker than that."

Intriguing, but ironic in that this post on your page has to its right no less than five images with light type on dark fields.

Buh!

Posted by: SlimyBill at October 1, 2003 11:17 AM

not to mention the images at left

Posted by: SlimyBill at October 1, 2003 11:22 AM

Hey, too much perfection is a mistake.

PS: They're known as buttons and bows. Not whole pages. I try to let my friends do as they want to do.

That doesn't mean I won't have to kill them if it gets out of hand.

Posted by: Van der Leun at October 5, 2003 3:40 PM