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Please consider using a thicker font. This one is not very readable on my device (Windows 10 + Chrome + 17" 100PPI display). I can read it, but it's not a pleasant experience. [edited]

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It's Lato Light (Lato @ font-weight: 300) at full #000, it's not a particularly obscure choice I think. I've checked the rendering on anything-but-retina monitors (27" at 1920x1080) but it looked fine to me.

Unfortunately, font rendering is still a bit of a crapshoot, it differs from OS to OS and even varies wildly between Linux distros (which may or may not use potentially non-free freetype functionality).

In the end, I hope it's manageable. We're open to redesign offers though =).

That font is really thin and weird looking here on OSX too. I can read it, just not sure I want to.

Is it also unreadable at https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato ? (Try "Thin" at 18 px size)?

I'm not parent, but experiencing the same problem. Yes, it's also very thin at the google font site, on 18 px Thin. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bUe7gNs.png The arrow points to the "Thin" line.

Windows 10, Firefox 49.0.1

FWIW, I think it's a pretty common problem with many web fonts on certain platforms (windows?). I see it all the time.

Also, thanks for the post!

MacOS Sierra on Safari, looks fine to me. Does not match the screenshot provided in this thread.

FWIW, I've changed the font-weight to regular. It's the same size on my non-Retina displays, but increased to regular thickness on the high resolution ones.

Hopefully, it's readable for by everyone now.

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