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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 don't use twitter that much. I find the font uncomfortable to look at on my windows desktop but not my macbook. Especially the left hand navigation bar. so, for me, it's not about the change but about the font in specific rendering environments.
There seems to be an issue with the OS antialiasing that is rendering characters slightly blurry to feel it's not focused, further straining my eyes.
Seems to have only been tested on Bay Area Apple devices.
I thought it's something with antialiasing or whatever on Mac, figured out I will solve it later with some setting or whatever.
It literally physically hurts to read it.
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View any random account. Here's one: https://twitter.com/twitter
Twitter takes like full two minutes to load in recent years, is that normal?
To anyone saying "Users will complain about anything", I'm on a Windows desktop and this is honestly the most unpleasant reading experience I've had on any big website in recent memory. There seems to be an issue with the OS antialiasing that is rendering characters slightly blurry to feel it's not focused, further straining my eyes. Seems to have only been tested on Bay Area Apple devices.
It's weird how unpleasant it is. The new font seems rather nice, and I would not even notice it looks different, but... it really hurts to look at.
No screenshot of what new fonts look like, I don't have Twitter so cannot see it on twitter.com. It wants me to sign up.