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105 votes + top spot on HN + submitted by an account registered an hour ago? HN is easily gamed, I guess.

Unless people are actually interested in web typography.

Why should the person submitting the link (unless it's pg) make so much difference?

How to make text look interesting:

Some ASCII art at the top, paragraphs divided in to readable form in the body.

Seriously, the people who care about aesthetics when they are reading are the same sorts of people who would rather not be reading in the first place.

I beg to differ. Because I consume vast quantities of text, seemingly small improvements in aesthetics make a disproportionately large contribution to my quality of life.

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