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Concerning the presentation of this article, rather than its contents:

Source Sans Pro 300 is too thin for body text on most platforms. It’s tolerable on Apple platforms with high-DPI displays due to their stroke thickening (where they essentially ignore the font author and do their own thing, though you could also argue that it’s just a form of gamma control), but on other platforms like Windows it’s much too thin, to the point that on many low-DPI monitors it’s genuinely painful to read.

Be very careful in general when using light font weights for body text. 400 is a much safer option.



I think you're overgeneralising. I have terrible eyes and I'm using low-DPI screen with normal zoom. I had no trouble.




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