Forum UI - what?

[dspreadbury]

@L3B

I agree with the OP. The contrast is too high. The whole look is too stark.

I recommend you go to your user profile and try out one of the other provided colour schemes, of which there are several.

[benwiggy]

Perhaps counter-intuitively, I’ve found that setting the font size to “Smaller” gives a better overall page. The default was a bit too spaced out for me.

[Romanos]

@Lee_Batchelor

All I’m saying is sans serif fonts are still easier to read than serif fonts on modern day computer screens - no matter what the device or your personal preference

I’m glad you know better than even my own personal preferences and experience! I guess the team better hire you so you can fix all our woes.

[Vaughan_Schlepp]

I agree with Romanos. Don’t you (@Lee_Batchelor) think it’s a bit presumptuous to claim that you know what everyone here prefers or to propound Absolute Truths™ like ‘sans serif fonts are still easier to read than serif fonts’, or to offer your invaluable services to the poor people at Steinberg who obviously know little about creating a good UI?

[Lee_Batchelor]

Sorry I brought it up.

[tristis]

There’s some really ignorant stuff being written in this thread: all kinds of rubbish scrawled by people who know nothing about typography and nothing about typefaces beyond the fonts that they happen to have found installed on their computers.

[Vaughan_Schlepp]

I think Daniel’s post above does a really good job of explaining why sans serif fonts were necessary on screen when a display of 72 ppi was the norm, as well as saying that with the high resolution screens we’re used to seeing now,

@dspreadbury

at most normal reading distances the appearance of serif text on a high pixel-density should be more or less indistinguishable from paper.