Yeah, I have a bone to pick with sans serif. Our kid was identified as dyslexic in elementary school. A sans serif b and d look identical to many dyslexics - it's like a cat is the same animal facing left or right - why shouldn't b and d be the same animal? Likewise p and q. Serifs can break the symmetry and thus help confused children.
So I really object to elementary texts using sans. And there's the issue of I, l, & 1. Sorry, that's a capital I, a lower case L and a digit one. Gosh, how do they look in the BIG font? I, l, & 1 Why in the world would a font designer want to add ambiguity to text? It boggles the mind!
Open Firefox and press Alt to show the top menu, then click on Help → Troubleshooting Information Click the Show Folder button beside the Profile Folder entry Create a folder named chrome in the directory that opens In the chrome folder create a css file with the name userContent.css Put ninalanyon's code in a file named userContent.css, and restart Firefox:
- Type about:config in the address bar and click the button to acknowledge the danger - Type toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in the search box - Change the value to true by double clicking or clicking the toggle button - Restart Firefox
@ninalanyon And of course you can apply this to as many sites as you like by making a copy of the text and pasting it into the same file then change the similarworlds.com to the domain of the site you want to modify.
@ElwoodBlues Glad to help. I really dislike san serif for the reasons you mention. It made some sense when we only had low resolution displays and dot matrix printers but now that we all have moderately high resolution displays and 600 dpi printers there is no need for it. I think I might experiment with serif for the comment text as well.
