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Part of the legibility is your screen time, how much time did your spend reading that font. I'm using DejaVu Sans for about 10 years and while there may be slig
by dvh 8y ago
Part of the legibility is your screen time, how much time did your spend reading that font. I'm using DejaVu Sans for about 10 years and while there may be slightly better fonts, it's not worth it to change it. Just pick one font and stick with it, don't change it every six months. This goes for websites and OS as well.
Arbitrary changes are annoying because you are losing your hard learned visual parser settings.
On mobile when I'm about to read longer article I use plugin to change all elements to medium size black on white sans-serif.
For legibility, consistency and familiarity is more important than finding the perfect font.
- Double_a_92 8y agoYes, but the perfect font would still be perfect. Which could benefit people that are not unbiased yet.
- imglorp 8y agoMaybe someone could explain to a font-illiterate what is different about a new font like this, why do people keep making new ones, and won't all new ideal, clean, readable fonts converge to be indistinguishable from each other because they have the same requirements?
- miloshadzic 8y agoWhat's considered "ideal" changes. For UI typefaces the medium they're used for has changed (HIDPI screens are the norm now), so it's causing a small renaissance of type design for screens.