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Maybe I'm just losing my eyesight, but does anyone else find that font impossible to read?
by foota 11y ago
Maybe I'm just losing my eyesight, but does anyone else find that font impossible to read?
- JonoW 11y agoThey have a toggle for light/dark themes (dropdown in the right hand col) if it helps?
- cmrx64 11y agoI also find it hard on my eyes. Looks like it's "Segoe UI" embedded via web fonts. If you compare their screenshot: https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/content/images/2016/05/DocumentationExample.png https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/content/images/2016/05/D... To one of mine: https://imgur.com/rFwTqUW https://imgur.com/rFwTqUW It's not even close. Edit: Seems the "blog" portion is very different than the actual docs: https://imgur.com/YKvFxCh https://imgur.com/YKvFxCh
- realusername 11y agoMine looks similar to yours but even a bit lighter than your screenshot, it's really totaly unredable even when selecting the text.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoIt looks like they are using segoe UI Light with a bad contrast (background too white, text too dark). Their visual design needs work.
- danfernandez 11y ago[Disclosure: I work for the team that built docs.microsoft.com] Thanks folks, we had Segoe UI Light on the blog and have switched it to use the same font as our docs!
- cmrx64 11y agoAwesome! It's very encouraging to see your comments here, reminds me there are humans in the tech ;) docs.microsoft.com looks like it will be a very nice upgrade.
- jug 11y agoIronically I think these kind of thin font faces render worse on Windows than on both OS X (Quartz) and Linux (FreeType). An odd choice given their rendering engine's limitations, but hey, maybe they are just expecting people to move on to HiDPI displays where I think rendering engine deficiences are often taken care of by raw resolution.
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- Szel 11y agoIt's hard to read for me too. I think it's because too little contrast for such thin font. Main page is bad too, especially this blue boxes.