Twitter has new updates to its design to enhance your tweeting experience.
The recent updates was revealed in a two-part official tweet by Twitter on Wednesday. In those tweets, Twitter announced a brand new font intended to improve “speed and readability”, more color options on user profiles, and new buttons on profile pages to automatically mention and send tweets or direct messages to another user.
The first feature, Twitter’s web font, a Sans-Serif system default font (Arial on Windows, Helvetica Neue on OS X and Droid Sans on Android), is a ‘back to square one’ decision when a few months ago the company decided to use Gotham Narrow.
Twitter did not respond immediately to the comments regarding the specifics of the changes, but some users are already voicing their disappointment, especially toward the new font:
“This latest change follows a design tweak to Twitter’s sign-up page last week, which took months of effort,” said Twitter product manager, Christian Oestlien.
Another new feature, the buttons on profile pages, is designed to make it easier for people to communicate with other users quickly. For example, if you click “Tweet to” while seeing one of your friend’s profiles, the Tweet box opens a new tweet with “@yourfriend” already at the beginning. Same thing happens on the message button, which sets up a direct message to the referred account. However, many experts stated that the new profile color options are just the icing on the cake.