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Comment by nassimsoftware | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry for the handwriting. I'm in the process of replacing the text bubbles with a proper font. Will post an updated version once done.

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yeah it makes it unreadable sorry.

Any reason why a bunch of comments say the same thing?

I could hazard a guess that younger readers don’t read other peoples’ handwriting much?

I didn’t even notice it was a problem, but I am middle-aged (I actually like personal writing and I dislike the industrial repetitiveness of fonts. I especially dislike fonts for comics designed to look handwritten but that lack human variability).

I’m 50 and I didn’t find the text very readable, it’s tiny and cramped and really not written with even a tenth of the care that someone lettering a comic by hand would take.

The hand writing was just bad. It wasn't full chicken scratch, but the idea that you would look at negative comments, look at the content and think it's fine, then aimlessly acuse readers of being young is rather absurd.

One way to improve would be to trace a font like comic sans or ames (I'm not actually a font connoisseur). The tracing would be for keeping the kerning and spacing good, not for literal cloning. You can do your own style, but your style itself still needs to be legible.

You can also make your own font file from your hand writing.

Pinch zoom didn't work on this website in Firefox for Android. This would also compound the existing problem.

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