Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

Re:Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance ... by burpee on Monday February 11, 2013 @10:57AM (#5201388)

Cool, another potential tool against poorly readable sites. I just created http://cantheysee.it/ for web developers to (roughly) simulate and test for users with poor eyesight.

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Re:Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance ... by buro9 on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:01AM (#5201408)

Whatever that font is (Source Pro Sans), it's fairly unreadable to me (Chrome on Ubuntu).

My eyesight is not great, but having a font that is too thin doesn't help either.

I wish body text just stayed in either serif or sans-serif at 1em. Use custom fonts for headers, but let my browser preferences determine the body text.

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Re:Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance ... by burpee on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:04AM (#5201424)

Fixed, you're absolutely right - that font should only be used for headers.

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Re:Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance ... by benaiah on Monday February 11, 2013 @01:32PM (#5202348)

Only because you are using the extremely thin version. There's a thicker version of the font that's perfectly readable as body.

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Re:Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance ... by buro9 on Monday February 11, 2013 @11:06AM (#5201433)

Thank you, most kind

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