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0 pointsnailer10y ago0 comments

Edit:

I've made some changes to Typekit to thicken things up. Is it better? If not, can you provide details of your OS?

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I'll investigate and fix that now. What OS are you on so I can reproduce it?

It looks this this here in Firefox (http://imgur.com/WRWYzBx) and this in Chrome (http://imgur.com/6dFeQhG) on OS X, testing across multiple Macs here. I'd really like to fix it though! Thanks for the heads up!

We moved from Google Fonts to TypeKit recently, so I suspect it may have happened then.

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zhte41510y ago

On the updated version, want to give some actionable feedback:

Not just the weight, the size combined with the weight: 12px in a thin font is too light for a screen, especially done in grey. Going to 16px could really make a difference.

Going with a bigger size gives the scope to use a different, contrasting (perhaps thicker, perhaps thicker and smaller for double-contrast?) font for the headings currently in green.

* Getting older happens to different people at different ages, one of the effects of this means eyes get more temperamental, and this doesn't happen 50+, it happens a lot earlier for a lot of people.

nailerOP10y ago

Thanks - I'm really grateful for the feedback - and would like it if you have any more.

I'll be changing the base font to 14px and darkening the grey to #222 quite soon.

I'll also look at 16px but this needs some additional design work.

tripzilch10y ago

As I said above, the Firefox screenshot looks like a printer that ran out of ink, the Chrome version is slightly better, but look at the letter 'T', that's still wrong, a hairline that falls between pixels. That's only acceptable for text that is not actually intended to be read (thumbnails, mockups, zoomed out stuff, etc).

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