my second request
Fri, 01/08/2010 - 16:57
I would henceforth like all games and game-related products to either have LARGE PRINT or be available in a bulky, cumbersome LARGE PRINT version, a la Reader's Digest and the Bible. It's an aging population nowadays, in case you don't know. (I don't know what it used to be. . .?) I'll NOT repeat the old jokes about how print keeps getting smaller once you pass (gasp) thirty, or how my arms are getting shorter. (Shoot, I just did repeat the "old" jokes.) And the spinning rack of reading glasses in walgreens don't help at all, maybe because of all that spinning. So, even if it encroaches on graphics or even covers up other text, please print all words in LARGE PRINT. Thanking you in advance from all the refuse-to-get-bifocals crowd, as well as the born legally blind and would not have survived evolutionarily if it weren't for corrective lenses.
An alternative idea is to offer stylish magnifying glasses (lighted and hand held, or pince-nez -- your choice!) that preferably match the tablecloth, cushions and the (also matching or color-coordinated) warm hats and fingerless gloves that would be my next suggestion. (It is cold in here! Uh oh, that's another geriatric complaint. I knew I should have picked up those battery-powered heated knee socks at Thrift Town the other day, even though they looked slightly dangerous with those twisted, broken wires.)
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 04:55
#2
A solution for large-print cards
I'm in favor of this large-print idea, too.
How to achieve it for cards? Provide a large-print reference document, sorted by card name, that has a large image of each card. The document should be available (at least) digitally, with the card names in searchable text (not just an image), so that I could open my pdf and ctrl-f for the card I'm trying to read. If cards will be a purchased item instead of a free download, then the cards could come with a coupon code that allows you to download the large-print reference; in that way, the reference would only be available to people who had bought the cards.
Having a separate reference sheet is not ideal, but it's better than not being able to read the cards. I'm still bitter that my dad can't increase the font size enough on his Kindle. Why does it have an upper limit? It's a computer, for Pete's sake.
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 17:49
#3
Large-print cards
It will be easy to offer a large-print PDF version of all the cards for print-and-play fans, or a reference to go with a professionally-printed deck.
The board will be trickier, although offering a reference text works well as an idea.
Large print: Possible.
Pince-nez: Unlikely.
Jeremy is doing the layout, so he'll be able to give a more definite reply. Off the top of my head, I figure that we could create large print print-and-play versions of the rules with relative ease. The FATE cards and ACME Catalog are a little more problematic, since they are size-limited and text-dense at times. Large print versions of the professionally printed items are a lot less likely (unfortunately) because... well, because they're going to be physical items that we have to pay to create. There's a slim possibility that we could offer large print FATE Cards, but (again) it comes back to re-laying out al of the cards, catalog, etc.
Long story made short: Large print is a valid and important request, and we'll do what we can to accomodate it.
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