SocialCompare’s Blog

While we are currenlty working on the full redesign of SocialCompare, we were trying to find the best solution to manage fonts and display nice fonts for titles or other texts that would be seen similarly on every web browser.

We have discovered a lot of fonts solutions and decided to make a quick comparison. As usual, we did a public comparison that can be edited and commented by everyone, so do not hesitate to improve or complete it.

Here is our features matrix of these different web fonts solutions (@font-face vs sIFR vs typeface.js vs Cufon vs FLIR…) :
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As we are working on improving the web design and ergonomy of SocialCompare, we are discovering nice tools to help us to make color choices.

Concerning the matrix itself, we already knew that we need to do a simple and sober table. So it was easy, without any tool, we have decided to remove the blue color and used gray/white colors instead :

 
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Even if we do not communicate too much about SocialCompare, due to a lack of time, we work hard to launch the service as soon as possible.

Actually, we were a bit hesitating to launch the first version that you can see on the screencast in September, because we were not really satisfied about 3 main points that we try to improve before opening the website:

1. Web Design
2. Ergonomy & Technical architecture choices
3. Content / Data

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