Alas, besides Apple, all consortiums and big companies totally lack font culture. Microsoft is getting on a bit better - the fonts they ship are good by themselves, - but all the same they f--k up ratserizing and typography in the system.
To make sure of this, it takes only to open the same page on Mac, PC and some Linux. The question will stand no longer.
Google traditionally had failed at design. Founders’ standard of ideas doesn’t exceed American office aesthetics. Hence various holiday pictures, hence shadow under the logo, hence given fonts. All of them are done by the standard of free font collections and present samples of extremely low quality. Namely student’s amateur crap.
Fonts are so horrible, that I just want to sit down, cover my face with my hands and cry helplessly. As it will circulate million-strong, people will think that you can do it like this. These fonts will be used.
Artemy Lebedev is a founder and art director of the most prominent design studio in Russia, known for their attention to typesetting.
Art.Lebedev Studio have on their site a running daily feature called Business Lynch, where since September 2006 they do review and critique of one specimen of design, submitted by the site's readers. Reviews are done in informal manner and widely range in style.
That article's totally backwards. The rendering is nothing to do with Google (unless you're viewing on Chrome :P). Microsoft has a fairly good font group internally and has made some great progress.
Google is just getting started (I'm part of the fonts effort there) and there are fairly respected designers involved in the whole effort. Without buying in licenses it will take some time to reach a certain quality level but a lot of the fonts provided are high quality and have received praise as such - the quote implies they're all Wingdings :/
"This is, unfortunately, total f--kup.
Alas, besides Apple, all consortiums and big companies totally lack font culture. Microsoft is getting on a bit better - the fonts they ship are good by themselves, - but all the same they f--k up ratserizing and typography in the system.
To make sure of this, it takes only to open the same page on Mac, PC and some Linux. The question will stand no longer.
Google traditionally had failed at design. Founders’ standard of ideas doesn’t exceed American office aesthetics. Hence various holiday pictures, hence shadow under the logo, hence given fonts. All of them are done by the standard of free font collections and present samples of extremely low quality. Namely student’s amateur crap.
Fonts are so horrible, that I just want to sit down, cover my face with my hands and cry helplessly. As it will circulate million-strong, people will think that you can do it like this. These fonts will be used.
(Cries)"
translation by me, original: Business Lynch, 24 May 2010 (http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/business-lynch/2010/05/24...)
Artemy Lebedev is a founder and art director of the most prominent design studio in Russia, known for their attention to typesetting.
Art.Lebedev Studio have on their site a running daily feature called Business Lynch, where since September 2006 they do review and critique of one specimen of design, submitted by the site's readers. Reviews are done in informal manner and widely range in style.