YM fogs its issues

[pugwash]

I'm not that old, only 62 next month. I'm not that blind, I wear bi-focals but can see pretty much everything I need to see and have no trouble reading newspapers. But I can't read Yachting Monthly text. It's now so ridiculously small that it blows across the page like grass-smoke, a blur of pale grey that stings the eyes and fogs the senses. Tiny sans-serif type like this is an art editing artifact. You can admire the page design from a distance but heaven forbid you're not supposed to read this stuff! I have been a journalist and magazine writer most of my life and so have my wife and three of my four children. My wife and I rail at this anti-human approach to lay-out; our kids love it. What do you lot think? Me, I'm on the point of cancelling my sub. What say, Paul?

 

[Peppermint]

Re: I\'m fifty next Saturday

Which is a bad thing. Anyway, I can still read the articles OK but many of the brokerage adds are getting near my limit. "Shepherds" & "Gillingham Marina" are the worst this month but Ancasta are getting smaller.

 

[RivalRedwing]

You have to make space for the adverts somehow!

 

[graham]

Im glad you brought this up as I thought it was just me.If I look at the small print in the brokers adds it starts swimming about the page after a minute or so.

Good thing really as it stops me getting excited about boats I cant afford . /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Parsonsheath]

Actually I use the adds to guage if I need revisit the opticians, once I have to move the mag round to try and make out the small print then it's off for the next check, just hope the latest varifocals last longer!

 

[Shakey]

I don't have probs reading (thankfully) and don't subscribe to YM but I have seen similar layouts in other mags.

Modern DTP programs allow you to do all sorts of fancy tricks with the page using layers, fonts, overlays etc but the designers have lost sight of an everday pyschological truism - FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION!

The geeks need to realise that just because the program lets them do it and it looks pretty isn't the point of a magazine.

There again, it maight be a cunning ploy to disguise the appalling lack of journalistic content in YM...... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif