Poll: Do You Like Keybord Font.

[zxxxy]

I was just wondering.... Does pandora's keyboard font looks cool for you, cause for me actualy it looks like the one used in cheap Chinesse rip-off's <_< (means i dont like it).... and here is the image so you can take a look right now and decide.

 

[Spirit]

I don't care much and I am not sure it is not final anyways.
A sans-serif font would look much nicer.

 

[gruso]

We haven't seen the final font yet, as far as I'm aware.

 

[renegadechic]

Have to say I kinda agree. I was a bit perterbed when I saw them. Its such a rounded heavy typeface and I think something more modern would be better. Sharper and less rounded.

 

[hch]

sorry for the attempt to hijack the thread, but i didn't want to open a new topic... does anyone know where the two alt keys are? the blog post just mentions ctrl is mapped to select.

 

[RajTakhar]

If someone has seen the keyboard font can they please post an image of it (not the daft one with ANY on one button)

This poll is kinda daft without the image being shown

 

[zxxxy]

We haven't seen the final font yet, as far as I'm aware.

i was sure its not a final but i tought that we can help you decide :rolleyes: ....

 

[urjaman]

I think that the font is ok, but an another thing popped to me when i looked at that picture,
essentially, are those 'ö' and 'ä' on the Fn-J and Fn-K keys? (I'm pretty sure they are, but not 100%)
If so, it's great that they've thought about non-english characters too
Now i'm only worried about how writing Ö and Ä will work because i read somewhere that the pandora's main keyboard can recognize only 2 keys at once
(eg. Shift-Fn-J = 'Ö' wouldn't work (and oh, if you pressed Fn-Shift, it would be Caps Lock...)).
Having to do Fn-Shift (capslock on) Fn-J (ö) Fn-Shift (capslock off) for 'Ö' could be a bit stressing but i can live with that, i was already prepared to IM with no scandinavian keys.

 

[MDave]

Eh, the pic in the first post, is that the German keyboard layout? Looks different to the one here: http://www.gp32x.de/sneak3.jpg

Can't say I like the font on the german one at all though.

 

[Consequence_9]

as long as it's not wingdings or TNR i really don't care

 

[Eolair]

I think a standard san-serif font would fit the Pandora better. A serif font on a keyboard just looks out of place.

Btw, why do we have Ö but not Å? How are we supposed to write Ångström then?

Edit: removed the huge pic since it got reposted at the top.

 

[zxxxy]

Letter "Ö" looks like

. by the way... look at this!Look into his eyes!

ow... soz.. images dont work.. plz delete this post someone cuz i dont know how......

 

[greendots]

It looks like that keyboard is the international keyboard for pandora. I hope that is not the one shipped to the US and UK. Are commas "," not going to be used? Because I dont see it there.

I wish all the key mappings accomplished something...

I dont like that font either, it looks very "70s" to me.

 

[MDave]

Any of these fonts are better:

 

[cosurgi]

Remember: it's gonna probably glow in the dark. The more paint we have the ligther glow-in-the-dark is. Therefore I want a BOLD SANS-SERIF.

PS: I can't vote because the "sans-serif" option is missing in the poll. You can't seriously make a poll that includes only "funny" alternatives like hieroglyps, without including the serious alternatives like "serif" and "sans-serif". wtf?

 

[gruso]

Is it too late to vote for Comic Sans?

 

[haptagud]

I'm with MDave, any of those he suggests would be preferred to the render. With Calibri being my choice.

 

[gruso]

Oh hang on, we're looking at a new render! I'll get bloggin'.

 

[renegadechic]

Any of these fonts are better:

All of them are better in my opinion! For they keyboard I think Corbel, Segoe and Verdana are nice and sharp looking (for example comparing the C in Corbel to the C in Calibri).

I love Century Gothic and Eras, though I dont think they would be as suitable on the keyboard. Thy would make it look very modern but they probably wouldnt show up well in the dark.

 

[Mqark]

I registered specifically just to say "Don't you dare use such an ugly dated font on my Pandora - I'll be VERY unhappy if that font is used."

And I agree totally that it looks like the usual nasty font used in cheap generic Chinese products.

Complaint logged - I hope someone listens.