I would like to rant about yet another website (book, article) on typography or accessibility worsening the typography and accessibility with their tweaks, and

I would like to rant about yet another website (book, article) on typography or accessibility worsening the typography and accessibility with their tweaks, and advising the reader to do the same. The fixed font size and increased line height are uncomfortable and unnecessary: as a user, I have preferred ones set already. There seems to be such a trend among typographers (and maybe web designers), as noted multiple times at [1]. Then it places light gray text on dark gray background, but near pure white pictures, which make that text uncomfortable to read. With some odd bright icons preceding the image captions. Possibly it looks different with a light system theme (inherited by a web browser, handled by CSS media queries). The thumbs-down icon near "Hard to read" text was hard to read, being pink on dark background. As mentioned by others, a table of contents is missing for such a sequence of web pages. As for the written advises, some of them sound sensible, but: > It is preferable to use serif fonts in interfaces where there will be a lot of text information, such as articles, news, and long reads. I find serif fonts very uncomfortable to read, especially for longer texts, such as books. Have read elsewhere (though probably also without much of a justification, but at least matching my own observations) that fonts without serifs are generally more comfortable to read, especially from a screen. Actually even this "book" appears to use a sans serif font, Inter (though I have custom font loading disabled, so seeing a sans serif font either way). Then it proceeds to describe many other ways in which one can mess up fonts for users (choosing different sets of fonts, pairing them, tweaking their properties), but as an instruction, not a warning. I would replace all that with the "do not mess with others' fonts" advice, and perhaps a similar one for colors. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38226833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38226833