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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 2 06:29 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:05 PM:

I have changed the serif font from Literata to STIX Two Fonts. For legibility on a computer screen, I wanted a font with less contrast between thin and thick strokes. Using an extension to try out different Google fonts, Charis SIL was in the lead for a while, but I eventually picked STIX Two Fonts. As a Transitional font, it still has both thick and thin strokes, but it has a little less contrast between them. Its other advantages are as follows:

  • With its shorter character height, there seemed to be a little more space between lines, and I found the reading of text to go by more quickly and more comfortably.
  • Its shorter character height also increased the number of lines on the page.
  • It lacks distracting characters that could slow down reading.

Since the text looked fainter in light mode than it had in dark mode when I was making my initial selection, I changed the weight of regular text from its default, which would be 400, to 500.