Suggestion:20070503 Graffiti Font Selection

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20070503 Graffiti Font Selection

Jon Pyre 01:21, 3 May 2007 (BST)

Suggestion type

Skill

Suggestion scope

Graffiti Messages

Suggestion description

It'd be fun if players could spice up graffiti messages by selecting from a small list of fonts to display their message in. An additional drop down menu could be added next to the text box, perhaps unlocked by purchasing a new Tagging subskill. I'm not saying Wingdings, all the fonts should be readily legible and of course supported by every computer. The default would be normal text so if you bought the skill you wouldn't have to bother selecting if you didn't want to.

It would be a way of reducing visual monotony.

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Keep Votes
  1. Author Keep No reason why not. Increases prettiness, doesn't sacrifice legibility. --Jon Pyre 01:23, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  2. Keep Another one of those lovely little suggestions that could make the game much more entertaining.--Seventythree 01:29, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  3. Keep Nothing special, but could help make certain graffiti tags stand out.--Target Zombie 01:47, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  4. Keep - Flavor is the spice of life. (No, that's not supposed to make sense)--Lachryma☭ 01:51, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  5. Keep - This will help so much when I'm tired and just scanning the page for the graffiti left on there! --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 02:26, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  6. Keep --Seb_Wiers VeM 02:53, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  7. Keep- Excellent. I'm tired of these crappy italics--Grigori 03:14, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  8. Keep - Would be kinda neat to see graffiti in different fonts. --Sonofagun18 05:26, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  9. Keep - good flavor. Mr Bound 05:56, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  10. Keep - Flavour is the haggis of life. --Cap'n Silly T/W/P/CAussieflag.JPG 08:32, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  11. Keep --Toejam 10:24, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  12. Keep - Mheh, completely harmless and totally useless. but why not?--Vista 11:03, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  13. Keep - ok --Duke GarlandLCD 13:06, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  14. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 13:29, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  15. Keep -- yummy, yummy flavor--Blood Panther 22:47, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  16. Keep -- With a list of the fonts that would be useable, I would like to know what I should expect... --Lord Evans 00:45, 4 May 2007 (BST)
  17. Keep -- I'm worried about people making ugly font choices even with a drop-down menu choice, but since it's graffiti and not something else like, speaking out loud, I guess it's OK for it to be ugly. --Rasi 07:30, 4 May 2007 (EST)
    • Re Anything really ugly or hard to read shouldn't be included as a font option. And of course if a message goes up you don't like you can always spray over it with something new. --Jon Pyre 10:10, 6 May 2007 (BST)
  18. Keep - If it's all the same font, and the fonts are choosen by Kevan, then it's ok. Even when people has a great capability of making it look ugly, I don't care. --Matthew Fahrenheit YRC☺T☺+1 09:52, 14 May 2007 (BST)
  19. Keep - It's all the same in the end to me really. - JedazΣT MC ΞD CT SR: 09:29, 15 May 2007 (GMT)
Kill Votes
  1. Change - How about also allowing active links, and (fixed / maximum sized) images? --Seb_Wiers VeM 02:40, 3 May 2007 (BST)
    Re Those could be proposed as seperate suggestions. There's no reason to be against font options just because you'd like other features too. I didn't have those ideas and I don't really know exactly what you want. The ability to upload images? Might be interesting, but then you run the risk of obscenity. You should write them up on your own, I'd like to see what you have in mind more specifically. --Jon Pyre 02:48, 3 May 2007 (BST)
    OK, just figured it would save time and avoid dupes. Vote removed / changed. I was thinking of links to external images. I suppose there is more risk of obscenity, but the current version has (afaik) no filters --Seb_Wiers VeM 02:52, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  2. Kill - God no! -- boxy T L ZS Nuts2U DA 11:20, 3 May 2007 (BST)
  3. Kill Of the available web-safe fonts, not very many of these look like graffiti. Ever seen a tag in Verdana? I haven't. Unless I am wrong and there are other fonts that have a handwritten feel to them, we'd be stuck with Comic Sans MS. And Comic Sans MS is what Satan uses on his web page. --Belmond zoo 05:11, 5 May 2007 (BST)
    • Re Theoretically you could spraypaint a message in any font you want. It obviously requires the know how, hence why you'd need a new skill to increase your artistic ability. --Jon Pyre 10:05, 6 May 2007 (BST)
  4. Kill - With the basic web fonts, it would just look rediculous. Better plain italics than Comic Sans everywhere. --c138 RR - PKer 15:58, 6 May 2007 (BST)
  5. Kill - Only a very small number of fonts are supported by every computer, Comic Sans would get sprayed everywhere cause for some reason people seem to like it, and it would just be plain obnoxious to read not everyone keeps their font at the same default size or has the same resolution and allowing this would basically make that a problem.--karek 07:07, 16 May 2007 (BST)
Spam/Dupe Votes
  1. spam - this is technically fairly infeasible. You have no way of knowing which fonts are available on a given users end system, through a browser interface. Sure, you can ask for "Jokerman", but there's no guarantee the user has it - and no way to force them to install it. Also, there's the accessibility issue of using any font other than a sans-serif, for people with certain forms of dyslexia. --Funt Solo Scotland flag.JPG 15:45, 4 May 2007 (BST)
    • Re That problem is simple to solve. The text can be set so that if you have the font you see it, if you don't you see ordinary default text. The joys of setting alternative font faces in html. The small minority that can't see the message in a stylized font won't be any worse off than they are now, and everyone else will benefit. And while I wouldn't want to make things any harder for those with dyslexia I don't think we should prevent improving the visual display with minor font alterations because of it. Theoretically someone with colorblindness couldn't tell the difference between a hospital and a park without reading their names, it didn't stop Kevan from having red and green colors. --Jon Pyre 10:03, 6 May 2007 (BST)
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