We like big serifs and, no, we cannot, in fact, lie

It’s true, we’re massive serif fans here at Backyard Post headquarters. What’s more, we like our type BIG, big and easy to read. It’s remarkable how little care so many otherwise beautifully crafted web sites dedicate to text. Just the other day I ran across a blog post on a design firm’s site, of all places, that was displayed in tiny white text on a bright red background, which really was just stupidly difficult to read. Like staring at the sun. Mental.

Today, for your reading pleasure, we ever so slightly bumped up the text size on our news story pages. (Example here.) Dramatic? No. Awesome? Hopefully. What do you, several readers, think?

Backyard Post text:

Normal text:

(Not that we’re hatin’ on all you big, beautiful sans-serif fonts. I, for example, happen to be ever so slightly nutty for futura. No typeface discrimination is tolerated at Backyard Post HQ.)