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I'm sorry, for the kind of things I tend to blog about, monospace font was the simplest way to have a truly what-I-write-is-what-appears without using any markup. If I could start from scratch I would use MarkDown, however at this point if I switch all the past blog posts will be broken, or I should switch conditionally from a post ID >= but then the blog will be a bit inconsistent. I'll try to figure out a solution.


Dan Luu's website is an example of a blog with extremely simple markup that's very readable on mobile and desktop.


You could make it so new posts have markdown, but your old ones are untouched?

Honestly, your site is probably the very hard to read, but some of the problems it has are just omissions on your part If you want to see how to make monospaced fonts readable in bulk, pattern your layouts after phrack.


Great, I'll check the Phrack site. Thanks!


Personally it wasn't the font for me but the way it wraps. I have some annoying vision issues that pop up from time to time. My solution is to use Safari reading mode on iOS, but that made it worse in this case.


As a quick fix, would changing width: 800px to max-width: 800px for #content help in CSS?


I'm on a phablet and it was easy to read. (Also liked it and have questions)




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