Tutorial: Font readability

[darkwind]

Your example

Pardon me for questioning your common sense regarding formatting and font choices, but your example post reminds me of minecraft server chats.

Minecraft

The brightness of colors is a subjective matter. Many people use a very low contrast/saturation setting for their monitors. I have a very high contrast setting, meaning dark colors are brighter to me than to some others. It might be that it is just not enough contrast on your settings for good reading. A window in the room affects that as well. Meanwhile, using frequently changing strong colors like you do in your posts (the KSP posts are clearly better than the LPI eyecancer) is likely to annoy people.

If you want to criticize people's work, you might better use their respective RP feedback threads for that instead of feeling funny by calling them out in flood threads. The last thing I wanted to read today, after getting myself to get into the forum again and do some RP with friends after being done with this game, is some nobody voicing feedback like a vegan who can't shut up about being vegan.

Many people use a very low contrast/saturation setting for their monitors

As you quite good pointed out. Many people use a very low contrast/saturation.
Which means many people can't see your posts as readable text.

Also, it's good to be done here, as I collect examples + adjusting-gathering materials/advice from other people for their input. There's no point to scatter it through all forum. Relevant information should be gathered in one place. for example, this thing I'm thinking to add:

The problem you are addressing in #4 is sometimes called stream of consciousness writing, meaning that the person just dumps their thoughts onto the medium as they occur, then never goes back and organizes them.

Rules to make the content more sensible:

1. Do not overuse words. There is almost always more than one descriptive that can be applied to a situation.
   
2. Avoid excessive superlatives. The magnificently awesome description rarely is.
   
3. One thought, one sentence. (ex: Cats have fur. Sometimes, the fur is multiple colors.)
   
4. Group similar thoughts together; when the topic changes, new paragraph. Corollary: Even with the same topic, when the thought changes, new paragraphs apply.
   
5. Before you publish, try to read your material as if you are someone other than yourself. If you can't do it in your head, read it Slowly and Thoroughly out loud. Do not make the mistake of "knowing" what you wrote because you will miss places where you did not include words, where the word order is incorrect, or where the spell checker betrayed you with a correctly spelled, wrong, word choice.
   
6. If your writing is important, and you have time, have someone else read it before you publish, especially for "official" correspondence.
   

Admittedly, not all rules apply in every situation, but I use most of the above all the time.

For the record, before posting, I read the entire post twice, replaced several words, restructured a couple of lines, moved three of them and removed an entire paragraph.

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