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Edit: 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 p
by aasasd 6y ago
Edit: 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.