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by DarqWebster 4715 days ago
While I'm not a professional typographer, I currently work in user experience, so I might have an answer.

From a cursory glance at the CSS, it's solid black text on a solid white background. This can have slightly too much contrast, which can become tiring to read. Off-black text on an off-white background tends to help I find. Apparently this effect is even worse for dyslexics, and "not-white" is specifically mentioned in: http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-informa...
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bestest 4715 days ago
black on white, links not underlined, letter spacing and uppercase in links wrong, line-height / parapgraph spacing ratio wrong (this one's most important and making it all ugly IMO), two column index - that one's really cruel, uppercase / lowercase first letter mess all around.

the page definitely looks a lot better with CSS disabled.

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mzs 4715 days ago
Yup, I immediately did View -> Page Style -> No Style and was surprised to find links!
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