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I like the idea. I've used services like this before. I do wonder if monospaced font is really the best route. It makes anything longer than a couple hundreds words a pain to read.



Never realized how uncomfortable it is to read a paragraph of monospaced font text, even though I read 1000s of lines of code in monospaced font without any issues.


IMO the only reason why it's unreadable is font size.


No paragraphs of comments in your code? ;)


No.. may be my code is just not worth commenting ;)


try !professor

https://txt.fyi/+/3c5c8a2b/

It makes the page unstyled


Maybe I'm in the minority, but I enjoy reading in monospace. And I certainly prefer it over a sans-serif font with font-weight set to 0.01 and poor contrast!


This. Bringhurst's fantastic "Elements of Typographical Style" is still relevant.


Agreed. Since it accepts Markdown for blocks of code, the default should not be monospace.


Yeah, it's pretty painful to read. If they are anti-webfonts, I think Georgia could be a good option.

For me the monospace text is difficult to read for longer text because I can't chunk as effectively.




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