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I love every article that comes up on HN/reddit about typography and fonts because the inevitable onslaught of "I find X unreadable and Y delightful because of
by michaelcampbell 6y ago
I love every article that comes up on HN/reddit about typography and fonts because the inevitable onslaught of "I find X unreadable and Y delightful because of Z" gives me new fonts to try.
There is some objectiveness to this subject but damned little and 99% of the comments are opinion. As a developer of many years, I've learned to just skip over any post that uses any form of the 'readability' adjective. It's totally subjective, and the poster more often than not will have a religious fervor about their opinion.
- artsyca 6y agoStrong opinions held loosely. For a lot of us fonts were a key selling point of early computing and there's a story about Steve Jobs taking in design courses in fonts as an inspiration for the design of the Mac operating system. The whole concept of fonts on the machine is another example of the message in the new medium essentially encapsulating the old. Fonts are an important tradition going back to the printing press and we are rightfully protective of them.