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by seventytwo 4275 days ago
That font is awful...
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You're right, and I hope you don't get downvoted for saying it. I can imagine someone thinking "Why are you complaining about a side issue instead of commenting on the OP's message?"

But the font is the message, or part of it: this entire message is delivered through the font it's displayed in.

And if you can't read the message because of a bad font, what else about it matters?

I only viewed the page in Chrome, but I did try three different machines and OSes. It's a bit hard to read - thin and gray - on a MBP Retina. Very hard to read on a Galaxy Note 3. And a complete mess on a ThinkPad W520 (145DPI display) - extremely thin and gray with malformed characters - look at the lowercase "g" for example. The missing strokes get filled in if you zoom in closer, but even at 175% the font is still too thin and washed out.

Not enjoyable reading on any of these devices!