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There are very few people who are able to make informed choices about typography to create a site that's most readable to them. You might be able to do that but
by DasIch 11y ago
There are very few people who are able to make informed choices about typography to create a site that's most readable to them. You might be able to do that but you're the exception and not the rule.
- rmetzler 11y agoThe very same link above is so much easier to read in Safari's "Reader" mode than in it's original "fancy webtypographer" design, that I wonder if the typographer actually understand what he does.
- DasIch 11y agoIt's easier to read but it also has an aesthetic that reminds me of the children's books I used to learn to read with in primary school. Comparing the text as-is and in reader mode, you see that the font the author choose is bolder (for lack of a fancy typography term) and the space between the letters seems to be smaller. If you increase the space between the letters with CSS using the letter-spacing property just a little bit, I think it's just as easy to read as in reader mode.
- mrob 11y agoIn Firefox it's as simple as going to Edit, Preferences, Content, Fonts & Colors, Advanced..., and disabling "Allow pages to choose their own fonts". Whoever was responsible for setting up fonts in your OS already picked sane defaults so there's no need to change anything else there.
- DasIch 11y agoMost people are happy they can barely use their browser and have probably never seen any of these menus. They won't even think about opening the Preferences window to look around and they definitely won't consider that they could configure the fonts used by websites.