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lycos | 1 year ago

I can't put my finger on it but I don't find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don't know much about readability claims here. Maybe I'm an outlier.

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ecjhdnc2025|1 year ago

The line spacing is way too tight (this is line-spacing: 1).

Obviously that is beneficial for ASCII-art (smaller vertical gaps), but plain text would benefit from at least 1.1 and maybe 1.2.

I am not a typographer but the cap height of this font (I think it's the cap height) appears quite large, when perhaps it would be better to have a slightly smaller cap height so the ASCII-art features would work well at line-height 1.0 without the letters feeling so vertically cramped.

Basically, slightly less-tall letters.

But as I say, not an expert.

fsckboy|1 year ago

line spacing beyond minimal ought not be an attribute of a font. I can see a "recommended" line spacing for some type of "vertical as well as horizontal beauty", but drives me nuts when choosing a font also chooses scads of whitespace.

I like to squeeze a lot of info on a page, why do other people get to say "no". Sure, space out your wedding invitation, I can deal, but on the daily text on my screen, that should be up to me.

I do prefer "typewriter" fonts that are more squoze horizontally, this one seems to have loosened the ol belt a little, maybe for more "squareness".

righthand|1 year ago

For me it’s the weird mix of serifs and san-serif letters. Just off putting and weird it kind of feels like reading a note from a kidnapper made of clipped magazine letters pasted together.

copperroof|1 year ago

I know nothing whatsoever about readability but this almost makes me ill to read. Very unsettling.

HumblyTossed|1 year ago

I don't like it. As someone else pointed out, the line spacing is too tight and that might be part of it, but I feel like it is too heavy (thick? Something in between bold and regular, whatever that is called).

loeg|1 year ago

I'd describe it as excessively bold/heavy.

seanmcdirmid|1 year ago

Type writer fonts are hard to read in general. Kerning leads to readability in general.