> if anyone has font or other recommendations for style tweaks to make I'd love to hear them! I'll play! My recommendation, in short: pick a new font, make th

> if anyone has font or other recommendations for style tweaks to make I'd love to hear them! I'll play! My recommendation, in short: pick a new font, make the content pane narrower (around 75 characters per line), and increase line height by 15%. The font you use, Montserrat, has nice details, but they're extremely subtle, and our eye doesn't pick them up at text size.The font uses very pure geometry [1], has really big counters [2], is light in weight, and has no visible stroke contrast [3]. The effect when you look at the screen is that you see big blocks of text, but struggle to register individual characters, and it's hard to find the beginning of the next line. Add the lack of capitalization, and it feels like a monologue, like you're playing rubber-duck for someone. A challenge: everybody uses Google Fonts, and all the good fonts get used so heavily they end up losing their ability to make people feel something. Pick a font that is good [4] and feels comfortable to you. Ideally, buy one. You get what you pay for. And you go from being one of the millions of people who use a certain font to being one of fifteen. If you like the feel of Montserrat, Tiny Grotesk [5] and Decimal [6] would both be great choices and are from excellent type designers. Or browse Matthew Butterick's font recommendations [4]. They're good. You're out $50, but it's yours. If you're absolutely allergic to paying for fonts, DM Sans and Work Sans are Google Fonts, have a similar feel to Montserrat, and solve the above problems. But then you're a robot. A final note: Montserrat is actually a nice headline font. The details come into focus at larger sizes and weights. So I'm going to open a can of worms: you could pick a _contrasting_ body font. Remember PT Serif from the [3] footnote? Try it on for size. ---- [1] By that, I mean things like: an "o" looks like a perfect circle rather than an oblique oval, and forms are strictly on 90º axes. [2] Counters are the apertures of letters, the open center of an "o" being one. [3] This is the contrast in "line" size. Think of it like the width of the line when you write with a chisel-tip marker: some lines end up thinner, some thicker. Look at the "e" on the font PT Serif - the vertical walls of the character are thicker, horizontal thinner. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Serif?categoryFilters=Serif%3A%2FSerif%2F*%2C%2FSlab%2F* https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Serif?categoryFilters=S... [4] You can't go wrong with anything Matthew Butterick recommends (https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html), or from any of the "big" font foundries: Hoefler & Co., Linotype, Monotype, Berthold, URW. If it's a bestseller on myfonts, it's a sure choice: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/best-seller https://www.myfonts.com/collections/best-seller [5] https://tinytype.co/type/tiny-grotesk https://tinytype.co/type/tiny-grotesk [6] https://www.myfonts.com/collections/decimal-font-hoefler-and-co https://www.myfonts.com/collections/decimal-font-hoefler-and...