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Ask HN: What is your favorite web font for long texts?

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We, as the Hacker News crowd, are reading blog posts, magazine articles and the like every day. And maybe you find some web fonts more readable or more pleasant than others.

So what are your favorite web fonts for long texts?

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Whatever the browser's default proportional font is. Then the user can choose what works for them and not what you happen to like. (A lot of what makes a font "good" is very subjective.)

I find Georgia to be very readable.

My advice (as an amateur =):

- always apply a generous line height

- do dark-grey (#333) on white (instead of the standard black on white, which is a bit too much contrast for my taste)

like this: https://jsfiddle.net/ot6oeakp/

That's a really nice combination, but for some reason I don't like it on my blog. Maybe the background is a bit too much 'white', while in your fiddle is gray which makes the font looks even more awesome. Ty for sharing.

yeah, I mean Georgia and geek topics do not "marry" that well imho =)

I checked out your blog btw and I have to say that I loved this post:

http://www.convalesco.org/articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-ch...

couldnt agree more

Oh thanks a lot! :-)

Whatever I have sans-serif set to in my browser. I just checked and it is Arial. I don't mind what you use as long as it renders correctly which most explicit choices seem to fail to do so.

I'd be really curious to get some responses. The appropriateness of web fonts is a difficult topic I've been wondering about for a long time.

Cardo looks great with a nice line-height. It's the font Leo Babauta uses for his blog Zen Habits.

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cardo

It's Lora for me. http://typecast.com/preview/google/Lora

To answer my own question: I like Noto Serif, Lora, PT Serif, and Habibi very much.

I make it simple, black on white: font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 13px;

Open Sans and Segoe UI

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