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Going completely off-topic: Why has everyone recently decided to use ultra-thin fonts everywhere? On my system (24" FullHD, Win8.1, Chrome 42 and Ubuntu 14.04, Chrome 43) the text is thinner than one pixel and thus unreadable below 130% zoom. Sure, I can open up DevTools and fix the font-weight, but seriously?

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My theory on this is that Windows 8 hyped this.

It's particularly problematic when it's being copied in mac circles because OSX has a biased font-smoothing algorithm that adds font weight (it's a design flaw). In other words, to get something to look thin on a mac, especially a non-retina mac, it needs to be very thin, sometimes less than a pixel thin. How other systems display borderline visible strokes varies depending on the system and the details of the font.

Oh, so I can tell whether the designer uses OSX by the fact that I can't read the fonts. That's nice.

The website font? I'm viewing it on a 27" 2560x1440 screen, Chrome 42 and OS X 10.10 and the fonts are normal sized for me. In fact larger than the HN font.

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