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Ironic coming from a site with way too much unreadable helvetica nueue

• Estragon 16y ago
  What do you mean by unreadable? Compared to what? (Serious question. I am tone-deaf on this kind of thing. The font read easily enough to me.)
  • kingsidharth 16y ago
    Use this on the article and then see.http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
    • Estragon 16y ago
      Definitely more readable with readability, but that seems to be mostly a matter of font size. If I reduce the font size of the output from readability with C-- in firefox, I don't see a big difference in readability.
      • kingsidharth 16y ago
        IF you reduce. Not by default.And yes font-size is part of design and UI so that's the difference we are pointing out.
  • sfard 16y ago
    Okay. Well there's a few things. First, there's a debate over whether serif fonts are more readable than sans-serif, but I think that's all subjective. Assuming you think helvetica is a good font for website content (a lot of people don't think it is), helvetica nueue (one of its more-expensive variants) was made as a font for featured content (titles, logos, etc) and was never meant to be readable at small sizes. Besides just looking strange, the eye can't read it as fast.