You have a good point about the manual kerning (not sure what's up with that), but I don't agree with any of your other criticisms. This is basically what typeface catalogs are like: a demo of a particular face.
- name of the font
who cares. click through to find out
- style of the font (sans, slab-serif, etc)
you need someone to tell you that? I don't understand.
- who made the font, what style is it based on, what was the designer's purpose/goal with this font
who cares. click through to find out
- how complete is the font, what characters does it support, quite a few of them don't even have most of the basic symbols from lower ASCII, that's pretty important to be aware of or you get unpleasant surprises long after the design is done
Yes, that information is clearly visible when you click through.
Imagine explaining to a client you designed a website for, that if they need to add new content to the CMS, they must manually kern the headlines! ... errr ... manually do the whut now?
- name of the font
who cares. click through to find out
- style of the font (sans, slab-serif, etc)
you need someone to tell you that? I don't understand.
- who made the font, what style is it based on, what was the designer's purpose/goal with this font
who cares. click through to find out
- how complete is the font, what characters does it support, quite a few of them don't even have most of the basic symbols from lower ASCII, that's pretty important to be aware of or you get unpleasant surprises long after the design is done
Yes, that information is clearly visible when you click through.
Imagine explaining to a client you designed a website for, that if they need to add new content to the CMS, they must manually kern the headlines! ... errr ... manually do the whut now?
Yes, you'd look like an idiot if you did that.