Why Developers Don't Trust Designers.
Design is an ancient tradition going back centuries, and many designers think this gives their chosen livelihood a special significance. I have recently been a sad little troll on a new typography blog because I felt the designer had sacrificed readability for the look of the site. As far as I'm concerned typography IS readability, and everything beyond that is just art. As it turns out the design is readable on some people's monitors, but unfortunately I didn't live up to the high monitor calibration standards of this blog (even though my monitor was inherited from a designer).
I believe that every person that publishes on the web should make readability their number one priority. We have enough strain on our eyes staring at a monitor as it is.
A typography site should be held to an even higher standard. Being an artist does not give you the freedom to ignore such fundamentals as cross browser testing and paying attention to contrast.
I have become enraged with this topic before by the online home of a famous typography magazine. As a web developer I was livid at the magazine's complete disregard for the conventions and standards that I have grown to love on the web.
Maybe I'm clueless about typography. I really am just a beginner when it comes to this topic, but every time I come upon one of these sites, I get a sinking feeling that designers do not respect the web for the unique medium that it is.
The take home lesson for today: 9px text is unreadable on any monitor at 1024 by 768, no matter where you went to art school.
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