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Like a human being could ever read that text. If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DIN
by Stratoscope 9y ago
Like a human being could ever read that text.
If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like.
If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think unreadable text with substandard font-weight is a good thing.
Of course, being AIs, maybe they could care less.
- kalms 9y agoYou even left a comment on the site writing that. Don't be an asshole.
- Stratoscope 9y agoFair enough, I edited the comment I posted there to take out the sarcasm and just kept the note on how to make the page readable. OK now?
- bcaulfield 9y agoPut it back in. We love sarcasm!
- Stratoscope 9y agoOK, chief! I even stepped it up and called it "scrawny text" for good measure. I am like a politician waffling and flip-flopping as the polling winds blow to and fro. Hmm... Chicken and waffles sounds pretty good right now!
- bcaulfield 9y agoWill look into changing that font up, many thanks for the feedback!
- discreteevent 9y agoThe funny thing is that I think it's in part motivated by the desire for minimalism. But instead of minimising the form they have minimised the function!
- nikanj 9y agoThe harder it is to read, the longer you'll spend reading it. And time spent on page is a really common vanity metric.
- DividableMiddle 9y agoOr.. the harder it is to read, the more unlikely I am to read it. And will instead leave the page and find another source for the information if I care that much.
- com2kid 9y agoIt actually looks quite nice in Firefox, it is hard to read in Chrome though. Maybe they have the one last web design team that primarily tests in FF? :D
- Stratoscope 9y agoI'm curious which OS you're using. On Windows, it looks pretty much equally bad to my eyes in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
- skeleton 9y agoIt looks good for me in Firefox on Xubuntu 16.04.
- marcosdumay 9y agoIt's legible in my computer. Debian 8, with Firefox, no-script, and ublocker, with 24" screen and a forced minimum font size of something that I don't even remember. Anything of those could be making it legible. I'd rather trust the opinion of somebody with a more standard system, and I doubt the GP is that somebody either.
- icebraining 9y agoIt's the no-script. Allowing scripts loads a crappy font. Hurray for NoScript!
- com2kid 9y agoLooks good in Firefox on Windows. I'm not on a high DPI monitor, which can certainly mess things up. Taking a screenshot and zooming in with a pixel grid, the 'i' on comedian is antialiased to 3 pixels in total wide, though the 2 on the side are very light. Firefox is 2 pixels wide, but both columns are dark. Chrome is also 2 pixels wide, but the columns are rather lightly colored. (Windows' native font antialiasing is amazing, I'm sad all apps don't use it...)
- oculusthrift 9y ago
- aalleavitch 9y agoThis guy front-end develops
- dang 9y agoPlease don't take personal swipes or post unsubstantive comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aalleavitch 9y agoIt wasn’t a personal swipe, it was a friendly joke (I’m a front-end dev too). What qualifies as an unsubstantive comment? People around here are so uptight sometimes.
- dang 9y agoYour intent is obvious to you but only to you, and if you don't find an unambiguous way to encode it into your message, few people are going to get it. One problem here might be that you're applying the standard of in-person conversation where it doesn't apply, at least not without modification. Interpreting my response, and that of users flagging, as "uptight" is a similar confusion. In person we'd all just laugh at the friendly joke and respond in kind. But the conditions are quite different here, as measured by how frequently such comments turn into brawls, and if we want to keep this place going for thoughtful conversation, we need standards that work on the internet.
- aalleavitch 9y agoPerhaps you’re right; it’s the kind of comment that would be obvious to my group of friends in other online communities, but I’m making too many assumptions about the audience here and how adversarial discussions can get. It’s one of the reasons I struggle with bigger online communities where you can’t as easily develop a report. Next time I’m joking around I’ll try to slip in a disclaimer even if it takes some of the oomph out of my joke :P.
- marcosdumay 9y agoSarcastic CSS is the current fashion.
- taneq 9y agoCascading Snarky Sarky.
- mastax 9y agoI find reader mode to be easier than modifying CSS, and it's built in to all major browsers (except desktop Chrome, funnily enough...)
- Stratoscope 9y agoSo that's what the Luxo lamp in my Chrome toolbar is for! (I have the Evernote extension installed in Chrome, and it includes Clearly as well.) It's funny, I've hardly ever used that thing. Like a dummy I forget it's there, and instead I go in and hack the CSS (mostly removing styles) and then post sarcastic comments about it. But you're right, I just clicked the Luxo lamp and the whole page became perfectly readable. And then I dragged the Luxo lamp over to the left where my most-used extensions are, so I'll remember it next time. Thanks for the tip!