Only marginally related, but what the heck is going on with the text on gwern's site? Are the per-character varying gray values supposed to convey some kind of information?
Thing is, line-height helps with the same issue (but without the weird colors), so if they'd fix that, the funky colors aren't as useful anymore.
But I guess we gotta save the trees from those printing their web pages or something.
Whatever one may prefer, I see they offer a plugin, which is a better way to use this tech, not by random sites forcing it on us.
If it's super-tight, why did loosening it not seem to help? http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height
> Whatever one may prefer, I see they offer a plugin, which is a better way to use this tech, not by random sites forcing it on us.
Is it better? That seems like the sort of claim that should be tested...
Even as an aesthetic novelty, it's a fairly pleasant one, or at least unobjectionable since it's fairly muted. Gwern's articles can be quite hard to read, being a wall of text, and their structure tends to be much more spread-out than your typical introduction, body, conclusion - articles tend to have several 'chapters'.