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systemvoltage
on Jan 24, 2021
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For this new trend of monospaced fonts on a blog - just keep in mind that proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability. Monospaced fonts, while not bad, aren't optimal for reading long form text.
keyle
on Jan 24, 2021
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I agree with you as a ux guy but I also have to admit this blog was more readable than most, at least on mobile.
vaillant
on Jan 25, 2021
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A fun thought: monospaced fonts are appealing to developers because we spend a bunch of time looking at them.
ur-whale
on Jan 25, 2021
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>proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability.
Any pointers to an actual scientific study to back this?
madpata
on Jan 25, 2021
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872088302500...
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