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Question typeface feels hard to read #86

Closed brianboyer closed 10 years ago

brianboyer commented 10 years ago

Should probably be a bit smaller. Is this a good body font? We don't use it on npr.org -- we use Helvetica/Arial, right?

dannydb commented 10 years ago

Everything is Gotham in weights used all over the new npr.org/about page:

screen shot 2013-12-16 at 3 04 11 pm

Some more leading might be helpful for the length of that line.

Reducing the font size will lead to unreasonably long lines way beyond the ideal average line length.

onyxfish commented 10 years ago

I agree the questions feel a little hard to skim, though I'm not sure if it's the typeface. It does feel like when I scroll down the page the titles are a little large to read comfortably. This might vary with with screen size / ppi. @dannydb Any thoughts?

dannydb commented 10 years ago

I think that part of this can be attributed to the variability in the length of the questions. Some of them are very short:

Could I be eligible for Medicaid now?

While others are quite long:

What happens if I sign up for a plan on the health exchange and get federal subsidies to help pay the premiums, but then don’t end up earning enough and should have been on Medicaid instead. Will she be expected to pay those subsidies back?

I’m not sure any amount of font size, weight or typeface tweaking is going to overcome that.