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Discussion on: Considering changing to sans-serif for post body

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Courtland Allen • Edited

I think your serif font looks great, and I'm curious what types of content it's worse for besides code and headers, which you're already using monospace and sans-serif for, respectively.

I switched the font on Indie Hackers articles over from sans-serf to serif a few weeks back. While it doesn't look quite as good as it used to, it still looks good, and the readability improvements are worth it (example).

Looking at the comments here, I find the sans-serif font harder to read than the main post body. Although maybe that's just the specific font choice, line height, etc.

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Ben Halpern

One potential issue is that we don't distinguish between "articles" and other types of content. For example, this post is the same as any other article, but on IndieHackers it would not be. And maybe that's a line of thought we should explore further.