Design for Reading

November 25, 2011 in Nuts, Web Development by CiaranG | 3 comments

Via one of Tim Bray’s tab sweeps, which are always good for picking up something interesting you might have missed, I happened to click through to an article telling me all about how to publish things. The first point was “Design for Reading”, but as you will gather from the screenshot of what I saw, it didn’t seem like a worthwhile use of my time to go any further.

Update: A fine bit of investigation and a workaround.

  1. Brent Simmons’s avatar

    Brent Simmons on November 28, 2011 at 21:25

    I bet you’re using Chromium on Linux. It’s a browser bug (probably due to an OS bug). Refreshing the page usually fixes the font-spacing issue.

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  2. Brent Simmons’s avatar

    Brent Simmons on November 28, 2011 at 23:32

    More research tells me that it’s a Chromium bug that can happen when text-rendering: optimizeLegibility appears in the CSS. I’ve turned that off for now. (Wonderful irony, isn’t it?)

    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=96936

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  3. CiaranG’s avatar

    CiaranG on December 1, 2011 at 18:44

    Spot on, yes – Chromium on Linux. And the article is perfectly readable now, thanks. :)

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