Using Web Fonts at All: Point/Counterpoint

Adam Morse makes the case against webfonts:

Typography is not about aesthetics, it’s about serving the text. If even a small percentage of people don’t consume your content due to a use of webfonts, your typography is failing.

All this being said I care deeply about aesthetics, and I’ve found the following two sentiments to be true: System fonts can be beautiful. Webfonts are not a requirement for great typography.

I’ve argued in their defense. Also, I reveal a lot of my own biases as a type geek:

I don’t believe that all of human experience can be elegantly communicated via Helvetica, Times, Georgia, or San Francisco. And when I read that “typography is not about aesthetics” then I sigh deeply, heavily and come to the conclusion that 1. yes it is and 2. aesthetics is a problem for the reader. The more ugliness that is pressed upon us, the more lazy we become. Beauty, legibility, subtlety, these are the qualities that are possible with the help of web fonts and without them we are left with a dismal landscape devoid of visual grace or wit.

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Making a Simple Image Resizing/Optimizing Service in Automator

As I was using Photoshop to resize my eleven billionth image, it occurred to me I should probably simplify this process. AppleScript, perhaps? Photoshop scripts? Some already existing little app? A little pontification on Twitter resulted in a number of suggestions to try OS X's Automator. Turns out it's a pretty easy thing to do, at least in a limited way.

Open Automator, then...

1. Make a Service

This is really up to you. You might prefer an app that you can drag things onto. Or a hot folder you can just drop things into. I like services since I can use them from the context menu anywhere.

2. Add "Scale Images" Action

It's under "Photos".

It will ask if you want to make a copy of the image or not. You probably do, so you can keep the original in case it doesn't turn out how you want.

3. Add "Open Finder Items" Action

Open it with ImageOptim. In my case I'm scaling the images for the web, so of course I want them to be as optimized as they can.

4. Save It

I like calling it something super obvious (to me), like simply "500" or whatever the max size of the scaling is.

5. Done! Now it's available as a service for any file in the Finder no matter where it is.

This is pretty rudimentary

• It has zero logic. So if you drop a 437px image into a service that scales to 1000px, it'll scale up which you almost certainly don't want.


• It keeps whatever format it's currently in. Perhaps your PNG makes more sense as a JPG, this can't help.


• It not always the greatest quality. I might look into attempting an Acorn or Photoshop thing instead since they seem to keep quality higher.

Would love to hear about your photo resizing workflows.

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