That seems rather extreme. What specific bad idea do you mean?
(Context here suggests that it’s something like “the idea that typographical choices for LW2 should match those for the web as a whole”, but even if LW2′s design makes that assumption and even if it’s a bad assumption it doesn’t seem fundamental enough to justify your last paragraph.)
So LW2 (as a whole, it seems) is bad and everyone involved should feel bad … because the people who designed it think that web typography is a mature science whose recommendations can be taken at face value?
Maybe I’m being dim, but that seems really strange to me. It isn’t clear to me what even makes you confident that they think that; I’m not sure what it means to say that something is designed around that idea (it can be designed via a process that assumes that idea, I guess, but that really isn’t the same); and getting from there to “LW2 is bad and everyone involved should feel bad” seems like an enormous leap.
I wonder whether I’m missing some vital context here.
That seems rather extreme. What specific bad idea do you mean?
(Context here suggests that it’s something like “the idea that typographical choices for LW2 should match those for the web as a whole”, but even if LW2′s design makes that assumption and even if it’s a bad assumption it doesn’t seem fundamental enough to justify your last paragraph.)
The idea that the study of typographical choices for the web is a mature science whose (nontrivial) recommendations can all be taken at face value.
So LW2 (as a whole, it seems) is bad and everyone involved should feel bad … because the people who designed it think that web typography is a mature science whose recommendations can be taken at face value?
Maybe I’m being dim, but that seems really strange to me. It isn’t clear to me what even makes you confident that they think that; I’m not sure what it means to say that something is designed around that idea (it can be designed via a process that assumes that idea, I guess, but that really isn’t the same); and getting from there to “LW2 is bad and everyone involved should feel bad” seems like an enormous leap.
I wonder whether I’m missing some vital context here.