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by throwaway823882 1872 days ago
Very hard to read this website.
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Why? I've spent a lot of time purposely to make it readable and, being dyslexic myself, I've found this final style sheet more readable than 99% of the other sites I visit. But if there are specific problems you're finding then I'd love to hear it
I was curious so took a look. IMHO:

- The body font is odd, I deactivated it in the dev tools and preferred the default.

- There is a letter spacing of 0.08em, which makes things very wide. I first deactivated it, but then it felt cramped. So I modified it to .02 and it looked about right.

- Text shadow on titles makes them look blurry. Looked a little better when I reduced the blur, but probably would look better to remove it.

> The body font is odd, I deactivated it in the dev tools and preferred the default.

Is it actually hard to read though or just a preference? I don't mind changing things if they're objectively worse. But if it's just personal preference then that's a different matter.

The reason I say that is I do actually find that font easier to read than your typical sans-serif. Which is why I picked it. But maybe I'm not a good data point being dyslexic -- perhaps I'm just wired differently when it comes to what's readable?

> There is a letter spacing of 0.08em, which makes things very wide. I first deactivated it, but then it felt cramped. So I modified it to .02 and it looked about right.

Cool. I'll have a play there. Thank you

> Text shadow on titles makes them look blurry. Looked a little better when I reduced the blur, but probably would look better to remove it.

There's text shadow all over the place. I'll remove all of it shortly and see if that makes a difference. Thank you

Changes made. Is that any better?
Yes, does look better, although looking on an iOS device, which may also have an effect. For example, the font.