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This font gave me a headache Why not write with white on white? It would be so stylish

joosters 9y ago
Looks clear & readable on my computer (Mac/Firefox) Perhaps you are missing the font and the page has a bad fallback font?
sp332 9y ago
The font stack is just "Helvetica, sans-serif" but the weight is set to 100 which is extremely light. So if you have a very light variant of Helvetica installed it might be unreadable. Edit: or if your default sans-serif font has a super light variant installed, it might look very different from what was intended.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  100 is not a font weight that makes sense for a large body of text no matter what the font. We call 300/400 "normal" for a reason. 100 is a "sometimes food" for that giant header or over-sized pull quote. Designers that insist that entire documents/web-pages must be "light and airy and always 100 font-weight" have A) never struggled with contrast or accessibility issues, B) maybe don't understand typography. "light and airy" also means "easily blows off the page and is unreadable".
woliveirajr 9y ago
Dark Reader extension on Chrome, black background with white font become much better.
jacquesm 9y ago
Your browser has a 'Page style/No Style' option to take care of stuff like that.
- Semaphor 9y ago
  Not that easy on mobile. Would be much better if people didn't feel the need to make their sites crappy
  - jhasse 9y ago
    > Not that easy on mobile. Why not? Reader mode is just one button press away in Firefox for example.
    - Semaphor 9y ago
      Because I HN links per default open in the HN app I, which is convenient.
      - jhasse 9y ago
        What is convenient about it?
        Semaphor 9y ago
        I like having both discussions and the article in one tabbed app without having to switch.
        jhasse 9y ago
        So that you can quickly switch between them?
  - bhandziuk 9y ago
    Firefox has Reader View. That works well on mobile.
  - gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y ago
    Firefox has a reader mode. It gives everything a nice consistent style.
Sodman 9y ago
If things like this bother you, you should check out the chrome extension 'Dom Distiller'[0]. I saw it in another HN comment last week and it's already one of my favorite plugins! It drops all of the non-article content on most sites and leaves you with a centered, decent width, blank-and-white version of the article that's almost always easier to read than the original. [0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dom-distiller-reading-mod/oiembdaoobijmdmeobkalaehgifealpl?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dom-distiller-read...
- askvictor 9y ago
  Unless you're on mobile.

Looks clear & readable on my computer (Mac/Firefox) Perhaps you are missing the font and the page has a bad fallback font?

sp332 9y ago

The font stack is just "Helvetica, sans-serif" but the weight is set to 100 which is extremely light. So if you have a very light variant of Helvetica installed it might be unreadable. Edit: or if your default sans-serif font has a super light variant installed, it might look very different from what was intended.

WorldMaker 9y ago
100 is not a font weight that makes sense for a large body of text no matter what the font. We call 300/400 "normal" for a reason. 100 is a "sometimes food" for that giant header or over-sized pull quote. Designers that insist that entire documents/web-pages must be "light and airy and always 100 font-weight" have A) never struggled with contrast or accessibility issues, B) maybe don't understand typography. "light and airy" also means "easily blows off the page and is unreadable".

woliveirajr 9y ago

Dark Reader extension on Chrome, black background with white font become much better.

jacquesm 9y ago

Your browser has a 'Page style/No Style' option to take care of stuff like that.

Semaphor 9y ago
Not that easy on mobile. Would be much better if people didn't feel the need to make their sites crappy
- jhasse 9y ago
  > Not that easy on mobile. Why not? Reader mode is just one button press away in Firefox for example.
  - Semaphor 9y ago
    Because I HN links per default open in the HN app I, which is convenient.
    - jhasse 9y ago
      What is convenient about it?
      - Semaphor 9y ago
        I like having both discussions and the article in one tabbed app without having to switch.
        jhasse 9y ago
        So that you can quickly switch between them?
- bhandziuk 9y ago
  Firefox has Reader View. That works well on mobile.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y ago
  Firefox has a reader mode. It gives everything a nice consistent style.

Sodman 9y ago

If things like this bother you, you should check out the chrome extension 'Dom Distiller'[0]. I saw it in another HN comment last week and it's already one of my favorite plugins! It drops all of the non-article content on most sites and leaves you with a centered, decent width, blank-and-white version of the article that's almost always easier to read than the original. [0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dom-distiller-reading-mod/oiembdaoobijmdmeobkalaehgifealpl?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dom-distiller-read...

askvictor 9y ago
Unless you're on mobile.