Font test

[librathree]

Billy

The smile went right through him. Like sunrise, piercing, burning - but it didn’t hurt until he realized it wasn’t for him.

Starsky stopped in his tracks, beaming, and Hutch stopped with him, confused.

“Billy!”

A man who’d just passed them - young, brown-haired, handsome - turned around, spotted his partner, and broke into his own sunshine

Comments

[moondroplette]

ahhhh, ya big TEASE! *g*

best font test I've seen in a while :P

[librathree]

I went through like 10 fonts. Is this one legible? It looked OK to me. Is it too big?

(That story's close to being done so I thought I'd give myself a nudge)

[moondroplette]

I don't think I'm in the majority of your readership, since I'm still fairly young and my eyes haven't gone all wonky yet ;) To me, the font's slightly larger than my own personal preferences (I like fairly small, clean/san-serif type), but I think most people will find it fairly easy to read, size-wise.

On the other hand, the leading (vertical space between lines) looks a bit tight to me. The lower-serifs from the top lines nearly overlap with the upper-serifs from the lines under them, and might make things appear to mush together for some people. Any way you could fix this?

[librathree]

Yeah, that's the old LJ problem. The leading's fine in Word, but LJ either wants to turn it all into boring, crappy, no-indent double-return sans-serif personalityless fonts, or it deforms it like you see. That's what drives me crazy. I try to compromise between my own preferences (medium serif font that's clean) and LJ's boring crappy preferences - so people can read it easily and I don't hate it - and LJ sabotages me. The bastards! Keelhaul them! (In honor of "Talk Like a Pirate LJ")