Thursday, October 10, 2013

Hey FontFace!

It's 1977. I'm fourteen. At a church dance. With girls.



They've played Dream On by Aerosmith (oddly appropriate) and I was too scared to move. Frampton Shows Me The Way, but who to ask? Then it happened. Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven spins up and a girl asks me to dance! An older girl. To a slow song. 14 year old nirvana! Then, disaster! The darn song speeds up in the middle and we have to let go and fast dance! What do I do with my arms? And my legs? Oh my gosh, my legs!



And now you know how I feel when you use a mishmash of fonts. Confused. Just pick one and use it.

Scenario: One Bar Chart, One Tab


Question: How many places can you change the font?

Answer: Only counting the buttons that say 'Font', I count ELEVEN! Even more if you consider things like Expression Attributes.

Result: A plethora of ways to crap-up* your interface on even the simplest dashboard.

Let's go through them one by one.