{"id":262,"date":"2008-04-16T03:24:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2012-12-21T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:28:28","slug":"dont-blame-the-fonts-blame-the-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/16\/dont-blame-the-fonts-blame-the-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t blame the fonts, blame the designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3point7designs.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/5-fonts-i-wish-would-die\/\">5 FONTS I WISH WOULD DIE<\/a>. That blog post was sad to read.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when these so-called \u2018ugly fonts\u2019 work quite well. If the target audience love Comic Sans, they are going to get the Comic Sans. Using particular font or avoiding it \u2014 based on a personal preference is utterly ridiculous. That is not designing, that is creating an artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Use what your users love. Use what communicates best, even if that\u2019s Comic Sans. And try to live with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 FONTS I WISH WOULD DIE. That blog post was sad to read. There are times when these so-called \u2018ugly fonts\u2019 work quite well. If the target audience love Comic Sans, they are going to get the Comic Sans. Using particular font or avoiding it \u2014 based on a personal preference is utterly ridiculous. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}