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tooling.report a quick way to determine the best build tool for your next web project, or if tooling migration is worth it, or how to adopt a tool's best practice into your existing configuration and code base.
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Cantarell font hard to read in light font weight sections #424

Open rschristian opened 3 years ago

rschristian commented 3 years ago

The font 'Cantarell' at lighter weights (<= 300) becomes very difficult to read. I've attached a picture that tries to show this.

While none of the fonts are what I'd consider readable (at least without causing a migraine) at a font weight of 300 (including what my system ships as the default sans-serif, thought that's not tooling.report's problem), Cantarell really stands out as being especially hard to read.

Doing a quick search, Cantarell does pop up in a few places with other users stating the same issues with it: Ghost, Evernote

While I'm going to have to bump the font weight up to 400 to make the site readable, IMO, removing Cantarell would probably be a good idea. But that's just my opinion, and clearly I already have some font issues as the default sans-serif is still really bad for me at a font wight of 300.

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jakearchibald commented 3 years ago

@rschristian can you tell me more about your system? Which operating system are you using? Which version? Which browser?

rschristian commented 3 years ago

@jakearchibald Sure, I'm running Endeavour OS, which is an Arch Linux derivative. Pictured was FireFox Dev Edition v89, but can reproduce in FireFox v88.

I just installed Chromium v90 to check and this seems to be a Firefox-specific issue, my mistake. Looks fine on Chromium.

Page on Chrome

If this is just a wonky system set up (which it might be, niche distro of a niche distro), happy to close this as such, just thought I'd raise the issue for if it was a concern.