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I recall one of the full professors back in grad school commenting about how the (print) layouts in Wired magazine were so hard to read, and lamenting about his
by saidajigumi 12y ago
I recall one of the full professors back in grad school commenting about how the (print) layouts in Wired magazine were so hard to read, and lamenting about his old eyes. He was immensely gratified to learn that we young grad students couldn't read the small reflective silver block text on neon orange backgrounds either.
But for the NoTCP site, I have a sneaking suspicion that this may have resulted, in-part, from only previewing the site on HiDPI (aka Retina) displays. It's an increasingly easy trap to fall into, especially for "casual" designers. My eyesight kinda sucks, but I've noticed that really good modern HiDPI displays make much lighter fonts comfortable than I'd otherwise be able to use.
- mapleoin 12y agoI have a better-than-retina 3200x1800 13.3" Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro display and this is hard to read. I see this argument all the time, but I really don't think HiDPI displays are to blame, OS X maybe.
- saidajigumi 12y agoGood point. FWIW, I've had a horrid time getting decent readability with Windows {7 thru 8.1} on a Retina Macbook Pro (via either Boot Camp or Parallels). I've attributed most of that to legacy Windows apps, which seem to be a horror show in HiDPI mode. I eventually just had to set that VM to a much lower resolution to make the main app (CAD suite) usable there. It's almost shocking how much better OS X handled the low to high DPI transition than Windows has been able to manage.
- hackmiester 12y ago3200x1800 here and it is unreadable as well. Could be that I am using Firefox, but so are... a lot of people.