new forum font blurred?

Is it only me? The forum font here is somehow blurred and a bit diffuse to me. And no I have no eye problems other webpages are all fine and not diffuse or blurred :)

Oh I thought my browser was causing it.
I don't like it either, what was wrong with the previous one?

Too bold or not too bold that is the question.

It's quite... different. Not a huge fan of it myself.

For one: You can't easily tell if you upvoted/downvoted something (Used to be that the option you picked was highlighted).

I think the new font is a mistake, not an improvement. There's a reason that Helvetica and its brethren are in such wide use.

The Open Sans font makes a good choice for non-bulk elements such as these:

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But for the body text of the posts themselves, please stick with plain old sans-serif, i.e. Helvetica and Arial.

Yeah, I find the new font awful

I find it a lot more readable, but that's probay largely due to the space between lines being increased from the old font.

I like it, and it's not blurry. Get an operating system that renders fonts properly! ;)

Would probably prefer non-semibold though.

Test post.

BOLD
NOT BOLD
UNDERLINED
ITALIAN
BOLD UNDERLINE
BOLD ITALIC ITALIAN UNDERLINING

I think I had to look three times to verify it's not actually comic sans.
It's mostly that we're expecting something else when looking at the text on this page though, I suppose it's a matter of getting used to. Our eyes are way too tainted with years of looking at the previous font to make an accurate assessment of the actual first impression though.

Still, my thoughts:



And forum post font is simply too large/bolded/spaced out.

(Yes, I'm aware it's all the same font family).