Did You Notice Something a Little Different?

I don't see the point of these changes. There was nothing wrong with the old design. I use my Ipad for GR and with this font everything is smaller.

Emily wrote: "Emma wrote: "Why was this not beta-tested in a trial run, rather than being forced on everybody at once with no choice? It's pretty obvious there is a major font issue, as around 99% of the comment..."

Wow. So no testing :-(

Horrible and blurry to read. What a shitty update

2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet.

O wrote: "Emily wrote: "Emma wrote: "Why was this not beta-tested in a trial run, rather than being forced on everybody at once with no choice? It's pretty obvious there is a major font issue, as around 99% ..."

To clarify, we did rounds of testing on our side, but couldn't do a beta test on the live site.

I'm definitely on board with a background colour change as well. Felt like I was staring into the sun.

I mean this in the nicest way possible. I love Goodreads but eesh.

My eyes hurt. I agree with someone who said it looks fuzzy.

Anyone who uses Stylish and wants larger fonts and most of the serif font replaced, I have a style here: https://userstyles.org/styles/121888/.... Still in progress, but at least I can read it better.

M'rella wrote: "2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet."

To be fair to the Goodreads team, they've been responding on this thread repeatedly. So I'm not sure that's a valid complaint...

The layout is great, the colors are great (teal is my favorite color lol), the serif is ok, a little childish to me but I can deal. the sans serif sucks major. It's really difficult to read. I would reconsider that, plus give us half stars!

HORRIBLE, incredibly hard to read, looks like crappy "pictures" of letters, if that makes any sense. Please switch to a font that is easier to read.

GR is my FAVORITE site to use, please don't ruin it!

This font will give me a headache! Please change it to something more occular friendly.

Don't like the changes. It's actually now more difficult for me to read and is actually hurting my eyes very bad and giving me a headache with the new fonts (even worse if I try to look at the page with my glasses on... which I'm suppose to be using to read or if I'm on the computer.... unless I'm using your website now I guess). If it stays this way, it's going to ensure that I visit this site less. I have enough problems with my eyes without you guys using crappy fonts and colors that make it more difficult and painful. I'm not really sure why it was changed in the first place anyway. There was nothing wrong with the old fonts and colors. You "fixed" something that wasn't broken and in the process you did you break it.

i agree with others the font is very hard to read both because of the size and color

I like it actually, except for the book title font and the seperation of (for example) "readers also enjoyed" and "genres", since it isn't as clear anymore. Anyways I really love the color changes!

I like the new colours, but the font is not my favourite. I find it quite hard to read to be honest

Is there an ideal browser we should be using this in? In Chrome, I find it more difficult to read.

M'rella wrote: "2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet."

Hey M'rella - did you send us an email to support? What forum did you use to contact us?

Both of the fonts are hard to read, especially the one in the comments box. And not fan of the whole "modernization" thing.

Marge wrote: "Print size is now even smaller than before. I already had to zoom to 125% to read the reviews. Now I have to go to 150% and everything else is now too large. As usual, everything is designed by and..."

I'm in my late 20's and even I think this font is crap.

On my husband's computer, the serif font does NOT look fuzzy. But it does on my computer. The top of the letters on the serif font on my monitor look like they are missing pixels. Not sure if this helps you at all and is probably why other people are also saying the serif font is fuzzy?

EDIT: We both use Chrome - so perhaps it's an aspect ratio or screen resolution problem?

The font choice is simply horrible (at least in Chrome). The text is blurry and hard to read. Please try to perform proper QA before going live with stuff like this.

The font on the blinding bright white is not helping the look. It hurts to look at now.

Why did you make the headings into all caps ("READERS ALSO ENJOYED" instead of "Readers Also Enjoyed" for example)? It feels like you are shouting at me...

It's different... haven't decided what I think yet but I'm optimistic I'll get used to it and like it. :)

There does seem to be a problem at least for me where E's and T's (lowercase) lose their cross-bar... so the t looks like an L and the e looks like a C which is confusing.

OH and PLEASE do not make the same mistake Twitter did, with changing into a combo of Facebook (profiles) and Instagram (stars to hears). That'd be terrible

ITS AWESOME!
Never mind all the haters. Keep up the good job!

This may have been said already but the type of device one is looking at the site with probably plays a part in whether the site is easy to read or not.

The new font is easy to read on my Macbook Pro but hard to read on my Desktop PC. See this image for a side by side comparison. The left is my PC and the right is my MacBook Pro.

Morgan wrote: "I don't like it that now when you are currently reading a book and you update on what page you are on, now you have to guess the percentage instead of just putting the page number in. It is REALLY ..."

Click the "percentage" and it will turn into a page number field. You probably added the ebook version of the book so it defaults to percentage, but you can swap back and forth between page numbers and percentages by just clicking the unit.

Emily wrote: "Joe wrote: "It looks terrible. About 10% of all the letters are just missing on my screen."

Hey Joe - where are you seeing letters missing? Would it be possible for you to send us a screenshot at ..."

It looks like everything is faded, IMPOSSIBLE TO READ. PLEASE EITHER GIVE US A CHOICE OR CHANGE IT BACK!

So it is very much a firefox (or webkit) issue. Looks okay on Chrome and Opera. Hoping Goodreads has a better solution they can implement today for Firefox users.

"To enhance the readability of text on Goodreads..." That's not what the new font does. It does the exact opposite. Various lines of letters are missing. For example, t's look like l's. Please change your font back, or at the very least, address this issue and fix the font.

I find the fonts too faint, the black doesn't really look black, more like gray. The blue color is very hard to read. Especially everything that is bolded is really fuzzy, and everything in italics looks somehow distorted. I usually use IE, but I tried also Chrome and Firefox, without any significant improvement.

I just hope that somebody high up in the GR hierarchy has the guts to admit that this was a mistake and go back to the drawing board, if they have a desperate need to make changes.

Steven wrote: "M'rella wrote: "2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet."

To be fair to the Goodreads team, they've been responding on this thread repeatedly. So I'm not sure that's a valid c..."

I haven't seen any, but I will take your word for it, unless you can point me in the right direction. I am very curious as to what they have to say.

Leslie wrote: "Why did you make the headings into all caps ("READERS ALSO ENJOYED" instead of "Readers Also Enjoyed" for example)? It feels like you are shouting at me..."

They want you to buy stuff and are getting your attention, supposedly. "enhance", my foot!

Sadly this font is an instant headache. :/

Better!

Emily wrote: "M'rella wrote: "2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet."

Hey M'rella - did you send us an email to support? What forum did you use to contact us?"

Here, in this thread. I read a lot of comments but didn't see any responses.

Looks decent in Firefox and IE but horrible in Chrome. That might be why there are lots of complaints.

O wrote: "Wow. So no testing :-( "

Professional experience: When you've already paid your consultants for the change, you don't want to be told there's something wrong with it.

This is giving me a headache. I can't read with this font.
Oh, in case you're wondering I am using Firefox.

I don't find the new font ugly or hard to read, but it doesn't always handle languages other than English well.

For example, romanized Japanese uses macrons for long vowels, such as ō, but the new font doesn't support them, it seems, so another font is substituted. Result? Very ugly font mixing within words.

See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..., for example.

Also, one of the fonts doesn't recognize the symbols in my name! UNACCEPTABLE!

Is the blinding white background newas well? Or just more noticeable with all the other changes. I can't even stay on here more than five minutes or so before I'm getting a headache. Did you ask ANYBODY what they thought of this before you changed everything?

Love it :)

New font is annoying - looks like the letters have holes in them. I restarted my computer thinking something was wrong with display

fantastic!! noticed it right away and was very content. the old headings were outdated, now the pages are sleek and modern. i don't understand why everyone is complaining when it's basically the same; just now more simple and cohesive.

The fonts are just awful to read! I don't mind the other changes that much (although I actually found it far more overseeable with the brownish bars dividing the sections), but bring back the old fonts! I can't use the site like this. It makes my eyes hurt.

M'rella wrote: "Emily wrote: "M'rella wrote: "2 hours into this craziness and no response from GR Team yet."

Hey M'rella - did you send us an email to support? What forum did you use to contact us?"

Here, in thi..."

Are some of the questions rhetorical, like this one?

I like the stars and the heading fonts more, but the base font is so difficult to read unless I enlarge my screen