A minor victory at work had made me a happy designer. During a demo run, I noticed the newly implemented feature still appeared in Verdana. Many moons again a request was made to have Verdana replaced with Arial. The engineer assured the font couldn’t be Verdana because the code is new. She said the smaller font size might have me mistaken it to be a different font.
I was not convinced. But I didn’t continue this discussion so we can proceed with the demo. After all the sprint tasks were demonstrated, we returned to the same screen. I brought up the font issue again. I half jokingly asked the engineers to humor me by proofing me wrong. I’ll shut up when I see the code is indeed Arial.
Engineers were happy to take on that challenge. We went back to their desk and started checking the code. There were hundreds of inline CSS to go through and it was hard to pinpoint to the right one. One of the engineers suggested nesting the font style in the top-level code then run the program again. As I have suspected, the font used was not Arial. The engineers finally agreed.
Living in the Seattle area, Smelly is a user experience designer by day, a running, cycling, gardening type of girl when she wasn't wearing the designer hat.
