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I find it... odd that an article on font rendering is using a 14px forced font size (default: 16px) making the article really hard to read on my 14" laptop screen from a foot away. Subpixel antialiasing on my LCD screen is just not my problem here, author. :)

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I am a partially vision-impaired man, and I really can't stand the dark-grey on light-grey texts that a lot of modern web pages have. They are essentially unreadable to me. In order to comfortably read this article, I had to go to Firefox's Style Editor and make the text actually black.

And it is ironic that an article about text rendering uses such low-contrast and small-sized text.

Background is white and the text is #333. Contrast ratio is 12.63:1, which isn’t bad at all.

Can’t really fault the author here

> In order to comfortably read this article, I had to go to Firefox's Style Editor and make the text actually black

Does the Reader View in Firefox help here?

Completely forgot about it. Yes, it does improve readability for me.

I mainly prioritize making my pages work reasonably with different zooms and window sizes, since all I really know for certain is that there's no ideal for everyone.

The font settings are just from a copy of bootstrap from like 6 years ago, because I have absolutely no eye for this sort of thing.

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