Lavinia Kollmann / March 2, 2005 @ 9:17 am

What a coincidence!

I was just about to point you out to Sven’s pages.
You are absolutely right: he is a real master of pixelmania. I do watch his work now for at least 2 years and he’s getting better and better. Today his generosity and friendlyness is more than unusual in business life.

Brian / March 2, 2005 @ 12:37 pm

I’m going to sound like a geezer, but what’s the deal with these tiny fonts on the website. I have great vision and I still hate trying to decipher what word is underneath my mouse pointer. Anyone with any kind of vision problem wouldn’t stick around a site like that for long.

PS - Thanks for your great site! I love it!

Please / March 2, 2005 @ 1:40 pm

Hey hey! Would you warn a girl when she’s gonna click on something with a huge hideous Flash interface? Please? Especially if it has sound and she’s supposed to be um, yeah, working?

Other than that, thanks — a ton. I really love free fonts, and I really love quality fonts, and those two intersect far less often than I’d like. I’m glad you’re providing us with this neato little directory.

KJ / March 3, 2005 @ 6:30 am

Big thanks for neat stuff that you blog. I love your site.

One gripe only, and it relates to one of the link in this entry… what’s the deal with flash sites that insist on making you watch the same, animation, for, every, single, font, on, the, page?

Flash is *cool* … people do some awesome stuff with it that I can’t do.

But to watch the same opening animation just to see the next file/font, over and over, is tiresome. How many things do you like to watch 30 times over?

As much as I love fonts, when I saw that I had to watch that every time, I left the site. At that point, it made me weigh the value of seeing the fonts against the patience of waiting to get through them. An interface design like this hurts the site because it can drive people away when you put them into that mindset.

I wanted to pass that thought on, is all.

codeman38 / March 5, 2005 @ 7:06 pm

KJ: Yeah, that’s one of the things I disliked about the Superlooper site as well, actually. It’s really frustrating, especially when you’re on a slower connection.

I wouldn’t have minded it so much had the links that spawned those animations had even a small preview of the font, rather than all being identical-looking icons that gave no information about the font they linked to…

codeman38 / March 5, 2005 @ 7:12 pm

Incidentally, here’s DaFont.com’s somewhat more accessible listing of Sven’s fonts. I don’t think it covers all of them, but it’s a good portion of them, anyway.