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Comment by KevanM | Hacker News Reader

Gosh, the content is illegible on Chrome and Windows 8.

14px and a lightweight font does not make for happy reading.

Sure looks terrible on Edge, Chrome, and Firefox on Windows 10. Gray on gray makes for terrible contrast.

Hello all! We just deployed a new version of the site that should solve some of these problems, thanks for the feedback.

The font is still pretty tough to read on Windows/Firefox. It would be way more legible with a 400 font-weight.

Hey! Just wanted to mention that i pushed a deploy a few hours ago that changed it to a 400 font-weight.

It's more the OS than the font choice, different OSes render text better or worse. The site looks great on a 15 inch macbook pro.

Designers only looking at their sites on their MacBook Pros is exactly what produces these pretty but unreadable websites.

Adding a "Yes, but..."

Microsoft's refusal, or inability, to release a version of Edge (or even a port of an earlier IE) for macOS exacerbates this situation.

I virtualize Windows on my MacBook for IE/Edge testing of my designs and code, but it requires a workflow and context shifting that I'd perfer I didn't have to do.

Edit: s/I.E./IE

With Parallels that's at least a bit less painful, but yeah, we shouldn't need to virtualize at all.

Ironically we have the exact same problem, except worse with Safari, since it has (relatively) poor support for some cutting edge APIs, and unlike Edge/IE we can't even legally test it in a VM because Apple doesn't even allow their OS to be put in a virtual machine.

At least Microsoft has the good grace to put up free VMs for browser testing - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

You can rent a MAC server here: http://www.macincloud.com/

At least you don't have to buy a whole different computer to do your job. I have to buy a Mac just to test websites and compile apps for iOS.

The only way for me to avoid using the Macintosh OS or having to buy a Mac is to switch careers or specialize.

Thankfully, cross-platform kits such as Cordova and React-Native let me use my preferred OS for development most of the time!

And on an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.

Well, I'd disagree and say they are the ones who picked the fonts:

-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"

And have picked one on Windows that does not render well at the size and weight they want to display the text.

They could have had a more universal font selection like Arial.

I was about to defend the choice made, because they use a typical system font stack, just like GitHub. But it was deliberately set to `font-weight: 300` (light), which really is unreadable on anything but "retina" displays.

Thanks for the note, the site is a rapid work in progress! Will get that fixed soon

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