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Lots of comments saying the font is hard to read, but I don’t find it to be so. Perhaps a difference in browser rendering? Overall, I think it’s a job well done
by Veen 5y ago
Lots of comments saying the font is hard to read, but I don’t find it to be so. Perhaps a difference in browser rendering? Overall, I think it’s a job well done, and I’m much in favour of old-style serifs and justification on the web instead of yet another boring sans-serif left-aligned page.
Elements of Typographic Style is one of my favourites too. However, I’d suggest that for web publishing, Butterick’s Practical Typography might be a better guide than Bringhurst, who was primarily focused on print.
- manuelmoreale 5y ago> Lots of comments saying the font is hard to read, but I don’t find it to be so. Perhaps a difference in browser rendering? I think the issue is with the font size in combination with the font itself. It's terribly small on big screens and the blue color of the text doesn't help either. Overall, not the greatest example of good web typography.
- math-dev 5y agoHonestly it’s pretty bad to see, somebody just came in and started hating the original poster’s website for no reason and others bandwagonned on. I had a look at the website and it looked fine, not my tastes (I like mono fonts), but overall perfectly acceptable. Perhaps a discussion about the content of the article would be more relevant.
- wruza 5y agohating, bandwagonned, no reason I don’t think there is no reason. The reason is a bad font that most of us have hard time to read. It literally catches the eye and discourages to read tfa. I think it’s all because of that macos fonts quirk.
- math-dev 5y agoI looked at it on my 5K Mac and also my iPhone 7, and the fonts were a bit thin to my liking, but I find the highest rated comment and similar comments to sharp, “terrible legibility”, “very painful to me”, etc. If I was posting the article for myself, I would be quite disheartened to spend so many hours and get such direct feedback. I think its better to leave balanced comment and some positives or not to respond at all. I read the comments and thought to myself oh boy have to check out this site, it must be terrible, which I hardly found to be the case.
- CrimsonRain 5y agoI started to read. I stopped reading because the font is so bad. I might have tried reader mode if it was for anything else. However, for an article about font rendering, no thanks.