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by h4waii 2502 days ago
Very much a nitpick, but I really wish the font remained consistent between articles.
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Nooooo... are you kidding? That's exactly what makes every article a piece. It's perfect as it is! Unify the fonts and you get an academic-style journal.
I think different fonts can work well sometimes, it can help give each article its own tone and flavour
Sorry, that's one thing we probably cannot fix - the whole idea is that the laying out of the articles is done by authors (not us - the publisher) and the authors have (almost) full control over it.

This means that while we can recommend fonts, we can't really enforce them in this model.

I know the idea for the authors to do the layout is at least 'experimental' (that's the word I prefer to use), but it also gives one more space to be creative (and makes it easier for us from a certain perspective too). See also https://pagedout.institute/?page=faq.php#layout

Didn't 2600 change fonts all over too?
It's still publishing. I suppose it does. I hadn't actually noticed that aspect, as much as expecting it in the magazine format they're going for.
Its very small too.
It's a PDF, you can zoom in as far as you want, the fonts won't be blurry.
But it's not the case that on every screen you could fill the page to the desired width and still see a sufficient amount of information to make the tedious scrolling worth it.