Discussion Do font style affect your reading?

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Do font style affect your reading?

  1. Yes, I can't read this type of .... Font style

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  2. No, just fine in reading it.

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  1. Sproutling

    Sproutling We are the Sproutlings

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    as the title said, do the font style used affect your reading, somehow you just can't get into the story because of the style used.

    I'm being affected by the font styles probably because I'm not used to it. I prefer times new roman and calibri.
     
    Sproutling, Dec 31, 2015
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  2. Ryve16

    Ryve16 Working Hard and Hardly Working

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    Unless it squiggly lines, that one party looking font, and language of the birds, i should be fine
     
    Ryve16, Dec 31, 2015
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    tocos10 Even more then the greatest Poster

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    Yeah. If i have to read something It should be a serif type font.
     
    tocos10, Dec 31, 2015
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    gordo1194 Well-Known Member

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    I won't read anything in Comic Sans
     
    gordo1194, Dec 31, 2015
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  5. Scarecrow

    Scarecrow > dev/null

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    Just comic sans. If I saw it, I got the sudden urge to scream internally thus affecting my reading experience.
     
    Scarecrow, Dec 31, 2015
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  6. tekinwillie

    tekinwillie TEKING

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    Just as long as it's readable.
     
    tekinwillie, Dec 31, 2015
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    JarJarThinks Addicted to Monster Hunter Generations

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    It's not so much the font, as it is the contrast to the rest of the page. Though Terminal throws me off a little.
     
    JarJarThinks, Dec 31, 2015
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  8. Nyanko

    Nyanko Psychotic Cat Princess

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    I find heavy serif fonts are sort of hard on the eyes. Of course there are exceptions; it depends on how pretty the lettering is
     
    Nyanko, Dec 31, 2015
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  9. Handa-kun

    Handa-kun Partial Nudity and Suggestive Themes

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    Of course, a good fontstyle makes reading enjoyable.
    If the font kinda unbearable i usually override it with firefox addon.
     
    Handa-kun, Dec 31, 2015
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  10. lachy

    lachy Well-Known Member

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    I use Clearly to override whatever fonts and clean up clutter so it doesn't really matter to me.
     
    lachy, Dec 31, 2015
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    Alverost Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, there are certain fonts that affect my reading. Majority of them are serif fonts, I prefer san-serif fonts.
     
    Alverost, Dec 31, 2015
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  12. remy911

    remy911 ┗|｀o′|┛ Staff Member

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    Reading fonts that have been faux bolded or italicized for an extended period strains me a bit. This happens with some Wordpress themes. Same goes for certain serif fonts on the computer. They look a bit "fuzzy" sometimes.
    (Strangely, I prefer standard serif fonts for print novels.)
     
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  13. Crownking

    Crownking King of quark star

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    No it doesn't matter as long as i can read any fonts or font-size works for me.
     
    Crownking, Dec 31, 2015
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  14. Shion

    Shion 『Wandering Specter of the Eternal Ice』

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    Comic Sans is definitely a no when reading..
    and the larger the font, the longer I take to read.
    Well, as long as it's readable it's fine.
     
    Shion, Dec 31, 2015
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  15. ArgosYesu

    ArgosYesu Lord of Some Lands, Editor of Others

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    Font and spacing is always horrible. On RRL, there is a distinct lack of spacing between paragraphs so the usual rule is to double space after each paragraph. Some don't do that and it's a bastard on the eyes.

    For others like (Loliparadise) Golden Word Master, the spacing is insane on the current TL's site. It's about 5-7 spaces of empty space and the font itself is tiny and in a horrible font style. Thank god for extensions like Clearly.
     
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  16. Slimikyi

    Slimikyi ^____^

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    I am okay with most, even comic sans, lol. However, that excludes cursive, or semi-cursive. I don't know which drunk made their Wordpress with cursive fonts, but I read it before and gave up.
     
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    holyshin Moderator

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    I prefer sans-serif with appropriately sized text boundary margins.
     
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  18. Shance

    Shance 『Trying to evade the wall in the front』『Failing』

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    Pretty much a gamble, I normally have less patience to annoying fonts... But the most annoying are spacings, I can not read a story without good spacings, it angers me!:mad:
     
    Shance, Dec 31, 2015
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    SAimNE Well-Known Member

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    there havent been any i can't read, but there are definitely some i prefer. tis why, whenever possible, i have "decreased productivity" on. allows me to choose bg color, text color, text size, and font.

    unfortunately i still have to stay on default if a series is prone to using different colors/fonts to display different types of texts(most often royalroad fics), but long story short i preferred certain fonts enough that i searched for an addon that would let me easily alter them, and used to do it manually in the element inspector before finding that plugin xd
     
    SAimNE, Dec 31, 2015
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  20. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    I don't have any trouble with any kind of font as long as it readable and legible.
    Even how paragraphs spacing won't have any effect on me.
    I also don't have any problem even if the format is weird...
    As long as it didn't use Voynich Script or written in Angelic Language then I don't have any trouble with font or style.
     
    Yukkuri Oniisan, Dec 31, 2015
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