Comments on: A good Zachman question

By: david

david — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:03:48 +0000

I started using WordPress because I was lazy and didn’t want to do any custom design or coding. I’ve been sticking with the new default style, because the old default style hard-coded the width, which looked pretty ridiculous in browsers on high-resolution displays.

That said, I agree that the font isn’t very readable, so I’ve started modifying the class theme for my own use. Step one is getting rid of Lucida, as requested. I’ll try to do more later, when I get the chance.

By: Sander

Sander — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:00:32 +0000

I have to chime in with quite disliking the readability of Lucida (though I think it’s mostly the letter-spacing for me). However, if David would rather not change the style, there’s a solution anyway if you happen to use a recent Mozilla or Firefox build. You can create a userContent.css file in the chrome/ directory of your profile and just apply your own styles to make things more legible on a per-site basis. This is what I have:

@-moz-document domain(“www.megginson.com”) {
p, li, .feedback { font-family: Verdana !important; line-height: 130% !important; letter-spacing: 0 !important; }
div.post { max-width: 55em; }
}

and I know that Opera has a similar mechanism.

By: Dave Pawson

Dave Pawson — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:29:17 +0000

I’d very much appreciate it if you
could find a clearer font David.
I like reading your blog.

For those with weak eyesight,
the merging verticals of this font
aren’t very clear.
Arial class comes out clearer IMHO.

Regards DaveP

body {
background: #fff;
border: solid 2px #565;
border-bottom: solid 1px #565;
border-top: solid 3px #565;
color: #000;
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}