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I hate the font choice of this article.

by eknkc 12y ago

mbillie1 12y ago
I had the opposite reaction - both the font and the text color detracted enormously from my ability and desire to continue reading the article.
- Isofarro 12y ago
  I am thankful you still had a choice to continue reading or not. I am thankful you had the choice to use a user-stylesheet to override both the font-family and the text colour into something more readable for you. I am thankful that the ability to work around these shortcomings was in your control. (Chuck it through a readability bookmarklet, as an alternative to overriding CSS) Spare a thought for people where the choice of whether or not to consume a piece of content is taken away from them because they are disabled, and they have no straightforward way of working around the barriers the website has placed before them. These people don't have the choice you have, unfortunately. I wish they did.
TheAnimus 12y ago
I thought it was because I'm dyslexic, but I really struggled to read the article.
syf81 12y ago
Same here, I thought she picked the font on purpose for this article, but her entire site uses awful unreadable fonts, colours, etc.
fionatg 12y ago
I think its a love/hate thing with my site theme. I've had a lot of comments that it looks fantastic. I think I'll have to increase the font size at least.
- hluska 12y ago
  Don't increase the font size (it doesn't help). Even when they're larger, certain characters (ie - SQL) are completely unreadable. Script is always a bad idea on the front-end. Do your readers a favour and change your font!
- claar 12y ago
  I also recommend choosing a more standard font. Personally, I left the site after trying to read the article and finding it a quite unpleasant experience to try to read.
- Gracana 12y ago
  I actually like the font... but I'm not surprised that a lot of people don't.
  - claar 12y ago
    For me, my eyes can't easily scan the text in this font, making it much slower to read. It's a very frustrating experience when I'm interested in the article itself, but it's literally fighting me as I try to get information from it.
clarry 12y ago
There was a time when the web was content (or data) and it would look how the user wanted it to look, configurable via the user agent's preferences. In fact Firefox still lets me choose fonts (and tell websites that they cannot override the fonts). I use the feature for security as well as readability. I wonder how long it is until they decide to remove the feature because it breaks the web...

I hate the font choice of this article.

by eknkc 12y ago

I hate the font choice of this article.

I had the opposite reaction - both the font and the text color detracted enormously from my ability and desire to continue reading the article.

Isofarro 12y ago
I am thankful you still had a choice to continue reading or not. I am thankful you had the choice to use a user-stylesheet to override both the font-family and the text colour into something more readable for you. I am thankful that the ability to work around these shortcomings was in your control. (Chuck it through a readability bookmarklet, as an alternative to overriding CSS) Spare a thought for people where the choice of whether or not to consume a piece of content is taken away from them because they are disabled, and they have no straightforward way of working around the barriers the website has placed before them. These people don't have the choice you have, unfortunately. I wish they did.

TheAnimus 12y ago

I thought it was because I'm dyslexic, but I really struggled to read the article.

syf81 12y ago

Same here, I thought she picked the font on purpose for this article, but her entire site uses awful unreadable fonts, colours, etc.

fionatg 12y ago

I think its a love/hate thing with my site theme. I've had a lot of comments that it looks fantastic. I think I'll have to increase the font size at least.

hluska 12y ago
Don't increase the font size (it doesn't help). Even when they're larger, certain characters (ie - SQL) are completely unreadable. Script is always a bad idea on the front-end. Do your readers a favour and change your font!
claar 12y ago
I also recommend choosing a more standard font. Personally, I left the site after trying to read the article and finding it a quite unpleasant experience to try to read.
Gracana 12y ago
I actually like the font... but I'm not surprised that a lot of people don't.
- claar 12y ago
  For me, my eyes can't easily scan the text in this font, making it much slower to read. It's a very frustrating experience when I'm interested in the article itself, but it's literally fighting me as I try to get information from it.

clarry 12y ago

There was a time when the web was content (or data) and it would look how the user wanted it to look, configurable via the user agent's preferences. In fact Firefox still lets me choose fonts (and tell websites that they cannot override the fonts). I use the feature for security as well as readability. I wonder how long it is until they decide to remove the feature because it breaks the web...