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Comment by crikli | Hacker News Reader

The custom font he's using made my eyes schitz out. Switched it to Arial and it became much more readable.

This just seems like font snobbery more than anything else.

He's using Georgia, and recommending it. But a not so unpopular position is that serif-fonts don't fit to the web, given the low dpi of current monitors. Maybe if you target tablets.

Besides: > It's good to keep it in golden ration or between 1.5em to 1.6em

I can't take someone seriously who believes in the golden ratio. That is debunked into oblivion.

And: Arial is different then helvetica, but there are not many technical issues with it.

He's using a custom font, Adele I think. Can't read shit unless it's blown up to 150%.

Ah, alright. It's Georgia on my system as the Adele font is not loading (maybe Ghostery, dunno). Strange that the fallback of a sans-serif font is a serif one, but well.

Isn't Adele a slab serif? Or I might be mistaking the names. Pretty sure it was a slab serif there.

There is the font Adele and the font Adelle -.-

https://typekit.com/fonts/adelle-web is indeed a slab serif, whatever that is. The css is

> "Adelle","Droid Serif",Georgia,serif

so it fits together after all, at least from that point of view.

Spot on! Nice work, detective ;) Thanks for clarifying this.

Same here. Interesting that it looks very nice at a glance, but I found it very difficult to read.

In a few years (months?) there will be articles telling everyone to quit using slab-serif fonts which are very popular right now.