[sophacles]

Sorry to rant, but I haven't yet brought myself to understand this position. Maybe it makes sense to designers or snobs but I have go calm down for a while just be able to reply. Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best?

[Wilya]

We need a "hide comments complaining about font" userscript.

Seriously, it's the third perfectly fine article I read today where a quite high voted comment (with tons of children comments) is "I hate to be that guy, but your text has bad kerning on [some precise browser version].

(on the other hand, this one might be justified. Just checked on Chrome, and all the 't's miss their bars. It might qualify as unreadable. My (and your) point still stands for 99% of the other such complaints, though)

[swanson]

Take a look at some of the screencaps below (or mine here: http://i.imgur.com/XpVhDMx.png Chrome/Win7) - this isn't the typical "omg don't use dark gray on light gray". The "t" and "l" are in distinguishable, so it is pretty hard for me to actually read.

I'm sure it looks fine in the authors browser/OS of choice, but it is not usable in mine - regardless of the merits of the content.

[Wilduck]

> Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best?

No, you're not. I would much rather read high quality discussion about the content at hand. However, I'm reading using Chrome on Windows 7, and I literally had to open the developer console and change the font to be able to read the article. Like others have mentioned, it wasn't just hard to read, some of the characters were actually indistinguishable.

When readability gets that bad, I think it make sense for the topic to show up in these comment threads. Maybe someone will be around to fix the issue. Maybe others will learn about what happens when you don't test a site in different browsers.

[jarrighi]

It is good to be alerted that the font isn't rendering properly on Windows Chrome, though. I think most of the PyLadies who use Chrome are on Mac or Linux, and the current design of the site is relatively new. Now we know we need to fix this.

[threedaymonk]

There probably ought to be some general principle of web design here: don't get fancy with stuff you can't support. If you don't have a wide range of devices for browser testing, that's OK: just stick to the standard fonts that work everywhere. If you are going to get fancy, do it right, and test exhaustively.

I know everyone opts for fancy, though!

[parsnips]

yes, probably.