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Ask HN: What's the best font for technical blogging?

4 pointsby skazka16almost 11 years ago
Are there any recommendations what font size and font family to use for technical blogging taking in an account the tendency for bigger font sizes (like on medium.com)? After doing small research, I found advices that serif types of Times New Roman, Garamond and Baskerville are the perfect fit for technical writing. Can someone confirm that and share some thoughts re font size of an article body and a headline ?

2 comments

cardeoalmost 11 years ago
If you&#x27;re going for readability make sure your font-size is in the 16-18px range.<p>Generous amount of line-height is also a good idea, closer to 2 than 1.5.<p>one word = whitespace<p>Serif can be nice but for a Sans Serif option, I like Open Sans.<p>headline I would go anywhere from 18px to 36px, depends on what type of look and feel you want to achieve.<p>Color wise keep it dark text on a light background with minimal use of a single accent colour. I like Red myself but blue is also good.
Tomtealmost 11 years ago
I love Matthew Butterick&#x27;s Equity Text and use that together with his Concourse (which I&#x27;m slightly less enthused about, but they were designed to fit together).