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by lewis1028282 2185 days ago
The font on that site is awful and too small. I’m on a MacBook Pro Retina 2015
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Use the reader mode in your browser.
Still a weird choice of font for a website. It looks somehow ok in firefox, but unreadably thin in chromium
Looks the same in both to me.
Or just zoom in. This site works fine. It's when web developers break zoom that the sin becomes unforgiveable.
Isn't this the default LaTeX font?
Probably but reading something online is different to print
It is, but it doesn't look good in that size on a screen. Increasing the font size would help enormously.
Isn't the default latex font still Computer Modern? This is Latin Modern which derives from CM.
I mean it depends. Xelatex and Lualatex, which are actively maintained, use Latin Modern. If you just use pdflatex then yes it's Computer Modern that gets used.

The typefaces are close enough though that it is quite difficult to notice the difference.

Indeed the font size is way too small, both for the font and in general.
Yep I just changed the font size to 18px in my dev tools and it looks better. Still don't think serif fonts are the best for a blog but guess that's just my opinion.