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Ask HN: What is your favorite web font for long texts?

• johnloeber 11y ago
  I'd be really curious to get some responses. The appropriateness of web fonts is a difficult topic I've been wondering about for a long time.
• romanovcode 11y ago
  It's Lora for me. http://typecast.com/preview/google/Lora http://typecast.com/preview/google/Lora
• maouida 11y ago
  Open Sans and Segoe UI
• guilhermeasg 11y ago
  Cardo looks great with a nice line-height. It's the font Leo Babauta uses for his blog Zen Habits. https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cardo https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cardo
• dorfuss 11y ago
  I make it simple, black on white: font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 13px;
• lomnakkus 11y ago
  Whatever the browser's default proportional font is. Then the user can choose what works for them and not what you happen to like. (A lot of what makes a font "good" is very subjective.)
• J_Darnley 11y ago
  Whatever I have sans-serif set to in my browser. I just checked and it is Arial. I don't mind what you use as long as it renders correctly which most explicit choices seem to fail to do so.
• glaberficken 11y ago
  I find Georgia to be very readable. My advice (as an amateur =): - always apply a generous line height - do dark-grey (#333) on white (instead of the standard black on white, which is a bit too much contrast for my taste) like this: https://jsfiddle.net/ot6oeakp/ https://jsfiddle.net/ot6oeakp/
  • atmosx 11y ago
    That's a really nice combination, but for some reason I don't like it on my blog. Maybe the background is a bit too much 'white', while in your fiddle is gray which makes the font looks even more awesome. Ty for sharing.
    • glaberficken 11y ago
      yeah, I mean Georgia and geek topics do not "marry" that well imho =) I checked out your blog btw and I have to say that I loved this post: http://www.convalesco.org/articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-change-the-world/ http://www.convalesco.org/articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-ch... couldnt agree more
      • atmosx 11y ago
        Oh thanks a lot! :-)
• cryptos 11y ago
  To answer my own question: I like Noto Serif, Lora, PT Serif, and Habibi very much.