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I find it strange that such a complaint about typography is done on a web-page I have hard time reading with my Chrome. The font is too small, and trying to enl
by gbog 15y ago
I find it strange that such a complaint about typography is done on a web-page I have hard time reading with my Chrome. The font is too small, and trying to enlarge it make the column narrower but the font size stay the same. When selecting text has some weird contours. There are some CSS tricks behind this, I guess. They seem to imply that the author is not fully aware of the number 1 rule of typography: it must be done according to the medium.
Books and newspapers don't have the same typographic rules. The web have other rules. Ebooks probably have other yet-to-be-invented rules.
But I agree with the claim: most of the books I have read on my Kindle have bad typography. It should be fixed on two sides: The reader's software can be improved[1], and ebooks have to be proofread and adapted to this medium.
[1] Oh I wish Amazon could iterate on the Kindle (I mean the real one, with e-ink), improve its reader software, its browser, etc., instead of running after iPad's success.