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Hacker News is almost minimalist in the same vein. What's its font though? It's pretty nonoffensive.
by hatmatrix 6y ago
Hacker News is almost minimalist in the same vein. What's its font though? It's pretty nonoffensive.
- slater 6y agoVerdana
- aasasd 6y agoEdit: scratch this, forgot about the ‘HN Enhancement’ extension. I see Helvetica Neue with fallback to Arial, and I checked that it's not my CSS. Verdana is pretty crappy for texts of even a comment length, as it's wide as heck. I have to hack it out with CSS on sites that I use regularly, or the eye gets tired in minutes.
- slater 6y agoOn news.ycombinator.com? It's Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css
- hocuspocus 6y agofont-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
- mark-r 6y agoWide is good, it improves readability. If you want a narrower version of the same font, try Tahoma. As a more readable version of Times New Roman, I like Georgia. It too was commissioned by Microsoft as a web font.
- aasasd 6y agoNo need to improve readability if it's already fine. Verdana is appropriate at small sizes—in, say, image captions. At ‘normal’ sizes, it just m a k e s t h e e y e m o v e a l o t. And I don't need to choose between the hyper-tight Helvetica and a bunch of MS fonts from the 90s, because thankfully the world is not limited to them.