On: Mensch -- A coding font

[jws]

I don't know, typing two zeroes in a row gets a little eyeballey.

And, unrelated, if you are thinking the serif font for the prose on that page looked like some ghastly font from the early days of printing. It is!

Legitima is the digital revival of a typeface used in Cicceide Legitima, a book written by Francesco Lazzarelli and printed in Venice, ca. 1694.

To be fair, Legitima is designed to work in smaller sizes and going smaller than the 19pt on the page makes it look much better.

[commandar → jws]

Personally, I found myself wondering why I'd want to use a font from somebody that cared little enough about readability to use a font like that on their webpage.

[jsharpe → commandar]

You have to use some type of font smoothing (e.g. ClearType) for it to look acceptable. It looks quite nice once you put it on.

[stesch → jws]

Oh, I haven't seen the ugly font on the page. I use NoScript.