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Maybe it's easy for kids to read, but I found the font too bold and the letters too close-together to read comfortably. I gave up before I could read all their justifications for those decisions.

But that might've also been the weird scrolling behavior of the page that ruined it for me.




> letters too close-together

The CSS has { letter-spacing: -.04rem; } It's across the entire site - no exclusion for this page (or for their .kermit-font class). So it appears they've missed the fact that they're altering the look-and-feel of the very font they're presenting in this post.


Yeah, bad site. Scrolljacking, non-zero letter-spacing on all body text… both things you should never under any circumstances do.


I assume that's to work around the high width of the font. Information density seems too low for paragraphs of text with that width.

I could see this current version (without the spacing hack) being the "easy-reader" version, and then make a "YA reader" variant that's lower weight and horizontallu narrower.


This letter spacing was the case for the site prior to the Kermit font post.


Yeah, I found this a lot harder to read and more strain on my eyes than something simple like the font used in the comments here.

It definitely seems too thick to me.




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