I don't like the left text either. The info on the label is the main attraction and thus should be centered. Too much open space on the label with the left text.
And here all this time I thought the coin was the main attraction.
ha Of course the coin is the main attraction of the entire slab but we were talking about the label and the new text alignment. The coin is not placed inside the label!
To be clear to all the rest of you old crotchety collectors (like me): I'm not talking about the aesthetic of the slab. I don't really care about them, either.
What I care about is this new thing we got called the internet. And how a standard has developed here and in other venues over many years and thousands of participants for sharing information and images about the coins we love, collect, buy & sell.
That standard so many of us have adopted is the Obverse/Reverse/Insert format. Scan the thousands of posts here and abroad and you'll see it's a thing.
These new inserts don't allow for that standard. At least, not without substantial changes to it.
Arguing it's the coin and not the slab is not germane to this discussion, unless you never look at images of coins online.
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. --Severian the Lame
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I like it. I believe their reason for doing it was to allow more room for text on the label.
Or a sticker...
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I don't like the left text either. The info on the label is the main attraction and thus should be centered. Too much open space on the label with the left text.
And here all this time I thought the coin was the main attraction.
ha Of course the coin is the main attraction of the entire slab but we were talking about the label and the new text alignment. The coin is not placed inside the label!
What I care about is this new thing we got called the internet. And how a standard has developed here and in other venues over many years and thousands of participants for sharing information and images about the coins we love, collect, buy & sell.
That standard so many of us have adopted is the Obverse/Reverse/Insert format. Scan the thousands of posts here and abroad and you'll see it's a thing.
These new inserts don't allow for that standard. At least, not without substantial changes to it.
Arguing it's the coin and not the slab is not germane to this discussion, unless you never look at images of coins online.
--Severian the Lame
At least they didn't "upgrade" their forum software.
It's pending, Arch is diligently working on it...as far as the label goes, meh.
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