[laumars]

Disabling `code { font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1, "ss02"; }` made a marginal improvement for me but it was only marginal. The bigger issue I had was the type-face was too large.

Ultimately you're never going to win a discussion about type-faces because they're entirely personal preference. For example I find most proportional fonts to be too narrow and harder to read so much prefer the typically wider glyphs of monospaced type-faces. To the extent that the font I used on one of my blogs was rounder letters. I then had complaints that others found it "unreadable" and preferred something narrower.

I'm sure there will always be a sweet spot where more than average number of readers will be content however the web would be a little duller if everyone converged on that same type-face. So I'm willing to take a marginal hit on readability (and let's be honest, the different is almost always only marginal) for the sake of websites having their own personalities. The alternative if people can just toggle Reader View in Firefox (or whatever the equivalent is in other browsers)