Danbooru

When to use text_focus?

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When I saw the text focus tag, I figured it would mainly be used for either text-only pages or pictures with prominent/stylized text (post #5278294, post #5247069, post #5158778, post #5042577). However, in practice, it seems to get used on pictures with any kind of text, including

, etc. None of which I would consider prominent enough to be the "focus" of the image at all. Is this use correct, or does the tag need a massive cleanup?

Not sure why I added it to post #4929259...

In any case, of these examples I would say only post #5356489 and post #4950802 qualify as they have a decent amount of visible text, and it isn't tucked away in some corner of the image. Small signatures and watermarks, minor SFX/dialogue etc. absolutely doesn't qualify.

Rather than being the focal point of a post, text_focus should be for for when text is a focal point of a post. Very few posts exist where the text is the single most prominent part of the illustration.

It needs massive cleanup. Tags like this are why I'm skeptical of the whole movement to rename every tag to some painfully-explicit name to avoid misuse. It doesn't actually work. We renamed text to text focus to discourage overuse and people are still using it the same as ever.

(See also: tied up (nonsexual), which is still misused despite having the most explicit name imaginable.)

AngryZapdos said:

Rather than being the focal point of a post, text_focus should be for for when text is a focal point of a post. Very few posts exist where the text is the single most prominent part of the illustration.

I disagree. The text is a focal point for most comics, but that doesn't mean we should tag every comic as text focus. Most text focus posts don't have any more text than the average comic. The fact that it's unusual for text to be the single most prominent part of the image is all the more reason to have a tag for it.

I all but gave up on the tag years ago, after it was removed without explanation from a string of posts where I felt the text was as prominent as it could possibly be. Like, if post #3182261 doesn't count as text_focus, then we might as well just nuke the tag, because nothing short of a text-only_page is going to be more text-focused than that.

But based on the examples in the OP, it looks like the folks who were most anal about policing the tag have finally loosened up a bit?

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