Please change to a more conventional font.

 

agreed.

 

If you are MAC users hit command + and it's easy to read.

 

Thanks for the hatelove! I knew it wouldn't last. Someone said a day, my 40 minute estimate was more on the money.

Windows doesn't have font antialiasing/smoothing and requires windows-optimized fonts, this one from google.com/webfonts obviously isn't. That is except for Internet Explorer because everyone knows font rendering should be done by the browser and not the OS.

Thanks Windows! One can never have enough Arial!

 

I'm running Winders© 7 and I think it looks pretty awesome. Win7 has font smoothing (ClearType) and you can even fine tune it by running 'cttune' at a command prompt. It looks about the same on the MBP.

The current style looks terrific too, way less "designed". The beige and blue(s) are a nice, unobtrusive palette.

 

a Mac user with bad eyesight. The font is 13px big and is the same size or larger than it has ever been. What these guys are talking about is this:

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Hint: The blotchy looking one is Chrome+Windows the nice looking one is Chrome+Mac

 

"Hatelove" is a good for it. Love the site, hate the font. That's really about it for this round of upgrades.

So is the font going to change?

(FWIW, I'm using Chrome on XP).

 

IE 7/8/9 Handles ClearType rendering in the browser. Other browsers (FF/Chrome/Opera) not so much.

Thanks for the comments. It's the same palette we've generally used since the beginning. I used the waybackmachine to pickup elements from the past and well as adding some new ideas.

The big ugly (see above) appears to be with the bold font-variant. I make try to remove it and see if bold text renders nicer on Windoze.

 

I'll see what I can do but not tonight.

I know what you are using; if it wasn't an antique you wouldn't be complaining

 

No denying the poor eyesight. I see no reason to squint to read when i can make it all bigger