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Tangent: when I opened this, I thought, “hot diggity, that is one fine serif font!” Then I looked closer and realized it’s the same font I’m using on my blog: Valkyrie by Matthew Butterick [1]. Nice to see such lovely typography on the web!

[1]: https://mbtype.com/fonts/valkyrie/



Your site is unreadable.


I'm sorry to hear that you think that. I just changed the color scheme and point size; I'm curious if that makes a difference.


That is a link to the font, not their website.


No I am pretty sure they are in fact commenting on the actual blog: https://lambdaland.org/ And I agree, it is a bit difficult to read with that font and color scheme. One persons "lovely typography" is another's visual noise.


I changed the color scheme a bit a few days ago so the point size is bigger and there's more contrast. I'm curious if that makes a difference for you.


Well, the white-on-grey colourscheme is quite unfortunate as it does make the text a bit of a blurry mess, but the formatting is fine. That is to say, on desktop the font size is well chosen and the line length is reasonable (if maybe a bit short).

...Just to be sure though, you are aware that the link in his post isn't his website, right?


I changed the color scheme a bit a few days ago so the point size is bigger and there's more contrast. I'm curious if that makes a difference for you.




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