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For this new trend of monospaced fonts on a blog - just keep in mind that proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability. Mono
by systemvoltage 6y ago
For this new trend of monospaced fonts on a blog - just keep in mind that proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability. Monospaced fonts, while not bad, aren't optimal for reading long form text.
- keyle 6y agoI agree with you as a ux guy but I also have to admit this blog was more readable than most, at least on mobile.
- vaillant 6y agoA fun thought: monospaced fonts are appealing to developers because we spend a bunch of time looking at them.
- ur-whale 6y ago>proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability. Any pointers to an actual scientific study to back this?
- madpata 6y agohttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872088302500303 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872088302500...