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Agreed, Overlock does not look very readable because of weird slanting.

Text looks normal to me. What's the issue?

The default font-family for that page is cursive, you see during the FOUC (before the webfont loads). Maybe the user has web fonts disabled?

Author here. I just changed the default font in the css from cursive to regular for those who have web fonts disabled.

Try it now ;-)

Don't pander to the haters!

PS love the by-line "WARNING: FULL FRONTAL NERDITY"

Indeed serif fonts are considered easier to read for big blocks of text. I would consider the font too thin as well.

I guess I'm just really good at reading text. It wasn't even a challenge for me.