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The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 9:22 AM
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I guess they no longer teach website design at Clemson. It's hard to read. They need to look at what the rest of the interweb is doing. definitely not industry standard.
Seeing that I sent an email via their contact list last week and got Zero response, I thought I would bring it to Tnet too see what everyone thinks about the new font.
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Legend [19352]
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Re: The font on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 9:28 AM
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wow I just checked it out that is pretty bad.
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Fire the font guy!***
Aug 6, 2014, 9:29 AM
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Legend [19352]
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Re: Fire the font guy!***
Aug 6, 2014, 9:30 AM
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Do you see how thin that font is. This has to be Batsons fault that #### looks weak.
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Fire Batson!***
Aug 6, 2014, 9:32 AM
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I blame dsp since he only types in lower case
Aug 6, 2014, 12:47 PM
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Heisman Winner [108390]
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it's ok
Aug 6, 2014, 1:25 PM
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i blame me too.
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CU Medallion [61704]
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As I was told while playing volleyball last night,
Aug 6, 2014, 4:12 PM
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"If you think it is all your fault, that is a lie straight from the Devil."
I had hit the ball into the net.
SMH
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Orange Blooded [2846]
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This is the same font that is used in the end zones and
Aug 6, 2014, 9:37 AM
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around home plate. I don't like it either. It seems to be a variation of block lettering which is classic old-school. Someone posted on here a few weeks back that all the athletic teams would be using this font.
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Standout [303]
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New EndZone font is AWESOME but not what he's talking about.
Aug 6, 2014, 9:53 AM
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He's talking about the thin font used for the content (the text in the articles, calendar, lists, etc.)
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110%er [9093]
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Is the font 508 compliant?***
Aug 6, 2014, 9:51 AM
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I think very few people will even notice that***
Aug 6, 2014, 10:30 AM
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 10:33 AM
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I like it.
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 10:35 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81887]
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I'm confused, are you talking about the logo?
Aug 6, 2014, 10:48 AM
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It's white, might be hard to see.
The actual font looks to be Arial, that's a pretty standard sans-serif font.
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110%er [9093]
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looks like it's New Cycle
Aug 6, 2014, 10:55 AM
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https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/News+Cycle
News Cycle is a realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the 1908-era News Gothic, the stalwart newspaper face from American Type Founders (ATF). Like News Gothic, it is designed for clarity and readability in large blocks of copy, but to still look good in headline-sizes at the top of the page. It also extends News Gothic to better cover more of the world's orthographies, starting with Eastern European and African languages, and soon Greek and Cyrillic alphabets as well.
Thus should not be used in regular text= web design Fail
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 11:53 AM
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that place is always a train wreck. If Philpot can not run a website, then Dan Radakovich needs to ban him from BBall broadcasts. Make it happen.
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The entire design seems bad...
Aug 6, 2014, 12:46 PM
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I haven't been on in a few weeks but the old site was very good I thought..it looks like this one actually went back 10 years..im a little confused.
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Re: The entire design seems bad...
Aug 6, 2014, 1:33 PM
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The problem is, they're probably locked into using whatever CMS platform they're under contract with and the people designing/administrating the thing believe so strongly that it's a piece of crap that this may have been the extent of what they could do without a complete overhaul.
I've done it a million times with eCommerce sites. "Oh, you want this ZenCart site you installed in 2005 to look sleek and modern without a complete overhaul? Okay, let's see what we can patch up."
There are a lot of things lacking.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 1:26 PM
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The the font bad, or it the typeface? Do you not like the selection of type or do you not like the combination of weight and style that's employed throughout the document?
It's important.
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 1:35 PM
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The same typeface is used throughout the content of the web pages, i.e. article title, article, latest news, blog, the Clemson vault, calendar, etc.
example: http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=209605411
#Clemson Social Media (bottom of main page) is using a readable font
The text in the article is not the correct font (New Cycle - see above ) to use in the main text of the page i.e. sentence. paragraph, etc. It's fine for larger print, but not for smaller print.
Did that answer your question?
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: The font(text) on the re-designed ClemsonTigers.com is HORRIBLE!
Aug 6, 2014, 2:22 PM
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Yeah, they could have stuck with news cycle in all caps for the headings, but even the basic Georgia would look a lot better in the body copy.
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CU Guru [1101]
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I don't think it's the font, I think it's the majority white
Aug 6, 2014, 2:20 PM
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background with the small size of the font, really hard on the eyes
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