It could just be me -- being a whiner, BUT..

I was reading some threads today, and felt that it comparatively took longer for me to finish reading each thread for some reason. Perhaps it was the Monday fever. I also noticed that the default Kurakani font was recently changed. So I posted (pasted) an article (not solely for this purpose), and re-read it as if I was reading it the first time. Boy did that take longer! Substantially longer!!

I remember reading one of the chain mails some years ago that had few words with the correct first and last letters, and mostly gibberish looking letters (with altered positions) in between. They were essentially trying to exhibit that: human eyes, in conjunction with the brain, interprets the words by simply glancing through the first and last letters of each word, and optionally one or two more, depending on the length and complexity of the word. That seemed true -- as I, like most of us was able to read the sentences and interpret meanings okay despite the fact that those words weren't spelled right.


Why is it taking such a long time to read this line?

Why is it taking such a short time to read this line?

 
Since our eyes can cover multiple words at a time, and the brain has the ability to grasp it all, given proper concentration; clearly -- reading materials written with larger fonts take longer time for the eyes to go through each letter's shape and identify (esp the first and last letter of each word). Even more, the spacing also increases, as the font size gets bigger!

There's probably a way to customize fonts only for the forum that I'm not aware of, but I don't want to modify my browser's font setting just for this purpose. I know you can manually set it the way you want with the WYSIWYG options (up there) when you're the author/commenter. But is there a way rest of the users (the readers) can change their font settings the way they want without affecting the browser universally?

Just curious..

~@~