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The text on this site hurts my eyes.
by FaisalAbid 14y ago
The text on this site hurts my eyes.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- kapilkale 14y agoIt borders on unreadable. I feel like I'm in the first row of a movie theater.
- joezydeco 14y agoI arrived late to the opening of Tron:Legacy (+IMAX/3D) and had to sit in the front row. THAT was a hurt on the eyes. This, I can deal with.
- peterjmag 14y agoAgreed. I gave up a couple sentences in and had to run it through Readability to read it. Hairline fonts (Helvetica Neue Ultra Light, in this case) are not really intended for body copy. Of course, the font choice is not the only thing that makes this practically illegible. It's too large, the leading's cramped, and it could probably use a max-width to prevent excessively long lines in larger viewports. Fascinating article, though!
- tripzilch 14y agoI really like how most browsers have a very usable webdev tool, so I just changed the font, line-spacing and document width until it was good. I don't always go through that trouble, but ihn this case the page was simple enough and the content seemed worth it.
- plorkyeran 14y agoIt was pretty obviously only tested on OS X: http://i.imgur.com/g1thFBk.png http://i.imgur.com/g1thFBk.png The OS X rendering is ugly, but the windows rendering is unreadably thin.
- mixmastamyk 14y agoIn Firefox: Alt+V, y, n