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Comment by hedora | Hacker News Reader

The text on this site is unreadable in portrait mode on my giant phone.

Turning to landscape keeps the text the same size, but makes the lines wider.

I usually don’t complain about website design, but this is illegible.

The behavior and aesthetics of this site reminds me of designs of artists who typically design for print. Fully constrained width, zero use of content reflow, yet theres a 'finished' look to the design (multiple columns, alternating figure placement).

+1 to this I had to change it quite a bit to read it comfortably on my MacBook, and I have 20/20 vision. Applying these CSS changes fixed it for me:

    #siteWrapper {
      font-size: 16px;
      letter-spacing: 0px;
      font-weight: 600;
    }

I switched straight into Reader View on iPad. Typography on that site is a joke of course.

I have reader on by default. Simply makes life easier in most cases.

"Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem."

Me, a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041142

It’s not better on a computer. Tiny grey text on a dark background, without padding (touching the edges of the browser’s window unless I make it wider).

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