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by microcolonel 2209 days ago
The main content may load quickly, at least with javascript disabled, and that's a good thing; but I can hardly read the text though. 300 weight text at 51% grey is awful.

When I see pages formatted like this, I tend to make a decision between opening the inspector and fixing the fonts, or just not bothering to read it, since it's clearly not designed to be read.

Original: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/illegible.png

400 weight: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/better.png

400 weight and black: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/black.png (not necessarily an improvement, once the weight is normal).

3 comments

Yeah, I couldn't read through the whole page either. It seemed like they were trying to speed up the font by making it thinner and sleeker.
Simply bumping the weight upto 400 would make the site much more readable.
About to release this fix now.
Thanks for the feedback!