NO! I so mad that everyone thinks that the regular shadowy outline with a non-pixel font looks better! I WILL IMPOSE MY OPINION ON EVERYONE AND YOU WILL ALL ACCEPT IT!
But in all seriousness, a pixel font with monochrome outline looks so much more "solid" with the 1-pixel borders than regular non-pixel font with 1-pixel borders. It just looks silly.
Of course I'm joking with the first part of this message, but in my opinion the font you're using now just doesn't "fit in". Sorry guize.
Bring on the angry replies!
You must be pretty amazing at the game then. Regardless where you put it, unless you are a top-notch player, you will miss stuff. Most players aren't good enough to check a cooldown bar every 2-4 second or notice it with their peripheral vision.
You can understand this if you look at the very top arena players. Even they miss casts from their focus target or they notice it very late. And that's multi-rank 1 calibre players we're talking about.
You can't see with a quick glimpse how long there is left of a spell because you have to look at the line, find your icon in the mess of icons and then see where on the line it is.
I use raven and if you've seen any of my screenshots in the last couple of pages it's highly customizable (recently added TukUI/ElvUI detection to skin and match the UI's).
Oh, nice try, kid. Now please go and play with your teddy.
Ah, sure, an argument. I knew I forgot something. I was half trolling, half serious. So, sorry, if it sounds kinda harsh or so. Bad day, etc.
About the argument: A 1px border with a non-pixel font isn't generally non fitting. There are enough examples, where it does. I - for example - am happy that carebear finally ditched pixel fonts. It was just bad with them (true, it was all crispy and such) but that was all. And yes, MY opinion, too. You can now say I am wrong etc, too. It's just ... a big screen and some mini unit frames with a font you can't really read when you are sitting ~50cm away from the screen isn't functional. It's just it.
That's why I was gone from all kinds of interface forums for some years: always worshipping same style over and over again. I rarely saw something new, something good. Always the same: minimal - not always functional - unit frames with a shitload of pixel fonts. I miss the "old" days with tapestry, led's GOOD uis, rdji, ooom's, etc pp.
Edit: I may add another one or two paragraphs. Mostly memorys or trying to explain things I write. But dunno. Maybe not.
(And I know most of you don't like me, or what I say, but tbh, I don't care.)
Last edited by Lyn; 2012-12-20 at 09:23 AM.
— oh, honey.
I personally hate any type of Pixel font. Hell, I even hate pixel art.
Whenever I tried it in my own UI; it made me cringe, and it gave me this nervous twitch that kept trying to put a gun to my own head. I had to get rid of it.
Most UI's just work better without it. In my own, superior, awesome opinion.
I used to agree with you; but I also see why they do get used. When you spend ages creating that pixel-perfect UI where everything is lined up properly and you've spent far too long ensuring they are, nothing screws it up like a round font which looks out of place. Pixel fonts work very well (imo, anyway) in these setups.
I can see how long I have something left with a quick glimpse, but that's me and that's why I use CoolLine. It may not work for other players and they may not be 'good enough' but I know that I am.
I totally agree with you. I don't like using the 1pixel border without the pixel font. They are a match made in heaven! (or hell depending on how you look at it). I hate playing on 1x multisampling too which is why I went to a messy border with messy font. If I sort out having pixel perfection on a high multisampling at 2560x1440 then I will give it another go, but for now I'm just going to mess around with a few things until I get something I like :Pi love you lyn. Long times!
Let's have enough of the arguments and disagreements now, to each their own! We need more pictures and to have some love in this thread, like my love for Lyn and the many years of great addons/UIs created!
Last edited by Hulari; 2012-12-20 at 11:51 AM.