I could have withstood a bit more leading and kerning, but yes, other than that, it’s just boring, not DREADFUL. Nathan, dear boy, you’re letting down the team! 😀
Well, I can certainly buy that the byline placement is nearly hysterical, all that space being considered, but still. This poor liddle baby doesn’t rise to LBC’ness, but we’ll let it go THIS TIME. 🙂
OTOH, whoever said that programmers were creative geniuses in spatial design, eh?
“Hey, did you know we could move the ‘Using Python’ down a little bit so that it wasn’t actually under the ‘g’ in the line above?”
“But that would ruin the gorgeous view of this completely generic stock background. Better see if we can jam it up there a little higher.”
To be fair, except for the bad leading, this is about what I’ve come to expect from programming books. Exciting, they usually are not!
I could have withstood a bit more leading and kerning, but yes, other than that, it’s just boring, not DREADFUL. Nathan, dear boy, you’re letting down the team! 😀
It’s that whole “empty space taking up the cover” thing that swung me.
Well, I can certainly buy that the byline placement is nearly hysterical, all that space being considered, but still. This poor liddle baby doesn’t rise to LBC’ness, but we’ll let it go THIS TIME. 🙂
OTOH, whoever said that programmers were creative geniuses in spatial design, eh?