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by eqvinox 672 days ago
(genuine question, sorry -) is it just me or does anyone else have problems reading the text with the font the webpage uses? It kinda blurs away from "text" into kind of a grey block. I think it might be the very small vertical line to line spacing?
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zote 672 days ago
It's the contrast!, all the code blocks do not meet the WCAG standards for accessible text, especially the second one, which as the hardest one for me to read.
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kdbg 669 days ago
Author of the site here (though not this specific post).

Any chance you could take a screenshot of what your seeing? The other commenter mentioned the contract of comment s in code blocks which I've already noted to fix.

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eqvinox 667 days ago
> Any chance you could take a screenshot of what your seeing?

I don't think it's a rendering issue, but sure: https://postimg.cc/ygsNzMhX

I looked into the CSS and removing the "line-height:1.15" makes it massively more readable for me personally. I have no idea about any science of human perception but I think the font is too "dense" with that reduced line spacing. (It's hard to self-observe this but I believe my eyes are slipping off between lines. Character width might be a factor too.)

(To clarify, my issue is with the main text itself, not code blocks.)

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