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A thing about these fast, static and minimalist websites (which I love) is that they use a monospaced font (which I don't love) instead of proportional, which I
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
A thing about these fast, static and minimalist websites (which I love) is that they use a monospaced font (which I don't love) instead of proportional, which I find easier to read. See http://antirez.com/ http://antirez.com/ as another ecxample
It's not a criticism but an observation that giving up on so much modern junk seems to mean discarding something I consider good; better fonts.
Not intended to be provocative, just a note.
- jrockway 6y agoI spent a lot of time thinking about this when I redesigned my own website. I really like the narrowness of Iosevka, and couldn't find a good proportional font to match its look and feel. So I just used Iosevka for the body text too. (I am currently experimenting with a quasi-proportional variant, Iosevka Aile, but I am not quite sure how I feel about it.) It looks weird, especially with justification, but I think I'll probably keep it.
- freshhawk 6y agoYou are definitely right. It's almost like those typographers have figured some things out in the time since 1440AD when they started working on it.