The font seems to be bigger, and the spaces between lines also seem bigger. "On the web, the optimal size is 15–25 pixels.". "line spacing 120–145% of the point size"
Looks like LW 2.0 is using a 20px font size, and 25px line height, which is in range of what is recommended.
The font is blurry, and gray instead of black.
NN Group supports what you're saying, although the text on LW 2.0 looks plenty dark to me.
The comments don't have boxes, so it is difficult to see where one comment ends and another comment starts, or which comment replies to which one.
Agreed.
Looks like LW 2.0 is using a 20px font size, and 25px line height, which is in range of what is recommended.
Is "what was recommended" similar to "mistakes were made"? It blames it on someone else, while leaving the "someone else" unnamed.
Existing recommendations about text size (and particularly, about not fitting too much text on a line) do not consider that Lesswrong has a different usage pattern than most sites. There are references dating back to 1971, but I can't figure out if any scientific studies were actually con...
What are your first impressions of the public beta?