OT: Hack (Type design features to improve legibility in the harsh conditions of the screen)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 11:06:42 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> an interesting set of features
>
> http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
>
> destroy ?

Wow, that site really hurts my eyes - probably mostly because of 
that weird dot effect that they use at the top (probably trying 
to look like an old monitor or something).

In any case, fonts are the kind of thing that I generally screw 
around with when the one I'm using gets screwed up for some 
reason (be it a new box not being set up with the right fonts, or 
the X11 / font settings being broken, screwing with aliasing and 
whatnot). As long as the font doesn't change and still works, I 
really don't notice it. And in the rare cases where I look at 
picking a new one, they all end up bugging me in various ways, 
and ultimately, I find that it pretty much just comes down to 
what I'm used to and not anything that's actually objectively 
better or worse about any particular font. If it looks different 
from what I'm used to, it bugs me. And if I switch for whatever 
reason, I'll get used to the new one eventually, at which point 
changing it at that point would bug me. So, personally, I just 
don't mess around with fonts normally.

- Jonathan M Davis