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Readability is not subjective. Small font sizes, low contrast, bad kerning, and many other things objectively decrease readability. It sounds like you think th
by nbouscal 13y ago
Readability is not subjective. Small font sizes, low contrast, bad kerning, and many other things objectively decrease readability.
It sounds like you think the web should be a collection of RSS feeds and APIs. That's interesting and all, but that's not even remotely what the web is. The system through which the user accesses web information (aka browser) is only well-tuned for a very small minority of users, because the vast majority don't even know that they can tune their browser, let alone think that they should. Further, I've never seen a browser where the defaults make for excellent readability. In every case I've seen, they don't even make for acceptable readability.
> There is. "Design".
Appreciate the snark, but I was talking about a specific word for what I understood you to be talking about. Design is the exact opposite of a specific word. It's so general as to be downright vague. (Also, since you said you didn't think we were talking about different things, this comment really isn't useful.)
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Readability is not subjective. Yes, it is. > Small font sizes, low contrast, bad kerning, and many other things objectively decrease readability. There are elements of design which affect readability more consistently across individual users than other elements of design do, but that doesn't stop readability from being subjective.