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Does anyone else notice that those long tails of the 'f' glyphs make an article really hard to read? My brain stalls out noticing every single 'f'.
by mawise 4y ago
Does anyone else notice that those long tails of the 'f' glyphs make an article really hard to read? My brain stalls out noticing every single 'f'.
- HPsquared 4y agoAgreed, it's too eye-catching.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI just see functions. f(ingerprint)
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- spookie 4y agoAgreed. It's interesting to say the least... Removing the top pixels from characters greatly reduces readability, which is not as significant if you remove the bottom ones. Then why does this happen? Any ideas?
- irrational 4y agoWe don’t really read by looking at individual letters. At least, once we become proficient readers. Instead we read words as shapes. If the shape is too far off from the pattern stored in our head, then we have to stop and actually look at the letters to read it.
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- crazygringo 4y agoI came here to say exactly the same. Usually I can enjoy idiosyncratic fonts, but it's driving me crazy trying to read this. It's the form of "f" used in italics, only un-italicized. I think part of my brain keeps thinking it's the italic "f" in math notation "f(x)" and then gets confused to find it as part of a regular non-italic word. Or it might be the fact that our brain relies heavily on word shape for fast reading, which is heavily dependent on the presence or absence of ascenders and descenders in lowercase, so adding a descender on a letter than shouldn't have one totally breaks our natural pattern recognition. In any case, I've never come across it in any typeface before in my whole life. Now I'm starting to see why. :)
- davidmurdoch 4y agoIt's similar to the symbol used in old writings for the letter "s", which makes it even worse.
- runlevel1 4y agoIt looks a lot like the "long s" of yore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
- zaroth 4y agoThis is what happens when HN can’t complain about the contrast.
- nullpt_rs 4y agoThis isn't the first time I've gotten this comment so I'm looking to change the font stack. Any suggestions? :)
- int_19h 4y agofont-family: sans-serif; For now, at least, browsers still allow the end users to configure this stuff, so let's give them that opportunity.
- progman32 4y agoYes. I'm a fan of my browser's default font. If you are of a similar mind, you can use reader mode on this site or just turn off the stylesheet.