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Stuart's Soliloquy to the Void
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Stuart's Soliloquy to the Void is a personal blog at hstuart.dk about programming and design. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Times New Roman alternatives and typeface choice. A commenter cites a readability rule about optimal typeface width and compares Nimbus Roman to it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I stumbled upon this article on readability recently [1]. It mentioned an interesting "rule" about what the optimal typeface width is for readability. Apparently the "rule" is that the lowercase alphabet should take up about 13 em of space. From this image [2], you can see that Nimbus Roman No9 (which is a Times New Roman clone) is a little bit narrower than that. It would be interesting to see what the lowercase al…
Comment linking /img/2008-02-13-widths.png
on “Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)”Submitted TransactionInDoubtException (2015) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microtypography (2007) as a story · 1 points
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