vintage verity

[ewein2412]

this is kind of on the useless side of useless since you can't actually comment there, but my latest time-wasting project is a sort of time-wasting project blog in which I post on my website various of my 1940s retro knitting projects, sewing projects, e-bay purchases, etc. Madness.

https://sites.google.com/site/elizabethewein/young-adult-novels/code-name-verity/vintage-verity

oh and BTW this first entry appeared in my LJ blog last year.

Comments

[ewein2412]

hah! I wasn't even thinking of you when I did that, but now I'm especially glad I did. I ran a workshop once where we discussed fonts, and someone who is dyslexic said that Arial is the easiest font to read if you find reading difficult - even though serif-based fonts are supposedly easier for people who don't have visual or decoding troubles. So although I'm not a fan of Arial in general, I figured I'd go for use over beauty. (And opted to stay with 10 point for size on the grounds that a reader can always increase the screen view.)

[estara.livejournal.com]

Arial and Tahoma are good for my eyes on the web, so is Times New Roman - but that old typewriter font has various thicknesses of the strokes in the letters on purpose and especially in a small size therefore starts blurring to me - so it's good in a headline, but not otherwise.

I sometimes increase font size on various pages, but I could read your site without that.

[ewein2412]

to tell the truth *I* have trouble reading that old typewriter font as text.

[estara.livejournal.com]

;-) I'm sure people who had to read pages and pages and pages of this on thin yellow paper weren't much happier, heh.