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Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :)

Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as someone else pointed out) to show upvote score. And then a way to show most upvoted in past week/month/year/all-time, as that is a view that is not-at-all easy to get from HN's interface.



> Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining

Thank you for posting this.

I've pretty much given up mentioning it.

Designers tend to have good eyes, and excellent calibrated monitors. Most people don't have such good monitors. Some people even have really cheap lousy tn panels with smudges and smears and such all over.

I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks is a good size and what good colours are.

I like massive fonts - make it big enough so you think it's too big, and then make it a bit bigger. And I like a pale off white background with black or very dark text. (Something #ffffdd and #003300)

I'm using plugins at the moment to fix stuff.


> Designers tend to have good eyes, and excellent calibrated monitors. Most people don't have such good monitors. Some people even have really cheap lousy tn panels with smudges and smears and such all over.

Here's an idea for a service: something that would simulate how given thing looks on different cheap, poorly calibrated monitors and TV screens.


It's more than that. Designers tend to use Macs. OS X's Quartz font engine renders text more heavily (and wider) than Windows' or Linux's does, and Chrome on Windows in particular suffers because it uses GDI for font rendering rather than DirectWrite like IE and Firefox do.

Chrome on Windows also happens to be the single largest web browser demographic, making it particularly hilarious that designers on their Macs end up designing these websites with utterly illegible fonts.

Arial and Helvetica may not be cool, but they're readable.

Here's Chrome 25 on Windows: http://cl.ly/image/000u2i2C0S3Q

And here's Chrome 24 on OS X: http://cl.ly/image/0t132S3b3k0d/o


Sorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement.

My scraper isn't currently set to get that deep, but the most upvoted per time period is a good idea that I'll look into.


It's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles.

http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png

Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.


I've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.


Still no good on Chrome. Remove Lato from body font.


Right! Just by removing "Lato" font in body {} and no more configuration, "Hevetica Neue" looks very nice to me.


Yes, oh god, yes, this. It looks perfect in Helvetica Neue.


No noticeable change (still cannot read it).


fwiw, very hard for me too (I am astygmatic), at +1 zoom it's better


The site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl


Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?


Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color?

Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are on a submission, and if clicking 'comments' didn't load a new tab.


pls change the contrast..its still very hard to read..I dont know how you have been reading it


Are you scraping the site directly? Have you heard of the official api? http://www.hnsearch.com/api


I made http://www.hnshowcase.com that shows thumbnail/comment count/vote count of all "Show HN" posts. You can sort by comment and vote count but right now it doesn't let you filter by time range. I think I'll look into adding that to the next version.


Increasing the letter-spacing CSS property by 1px in Chrome made everything a lot easier for me to read.


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