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Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

#11

This is what user stylesheets were intended to solve. Too bad the majority browsers have gone down the path of attempting to remove all customisation.

User stylesheets are a relic of Web 1.0, when the web was a series of hyperlinked documents. The transformation from web page to web application was not compatible with things like user stylesheets.

Yeah, most stylesheets nowadays look like they are generated by a compiler. Certainly not human-readable.

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

#12

is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?

I find handles and other bolded text are objectively difficult to read. Take a look at a bolded 'e' for a prime example; there is not enough whitespace, and the horizontal line is too thin, making it all but disappear in the middle of the bold curve.

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

#15

is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches, or is it just because it looks different from what the user expects, and twitter users are used to looking at twitter many times a day, so it throws their brain for a loop?

They should count themselves lucky. Just headaches and not seizures? https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/its-catching/202007/...

Re: Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

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post #13

The text of this article is 50% a repeat of the embedded tweets. It’s like high schoolers gaming word counts have taken over publishing.

"A few random Twitter users wrote some stuff" is one of my least favorite forms of modern journalism.
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