My possibly degenerating brain and typing comments: Does font make a difference? Can I change this site's font?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨shalafi@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Took a hiatus from lemmy to hang around Bluesky. When I left here I was typing errors into every post. Some were typical, like not making a noun plural, some were scary, like using the completely wrong word. Think: “bat” when I meant “car”. Some were worse but I can’t remember any.

Having mental problems over the past couple of years and noticing this scared the crap out of me, especially as it seemed to get progressively worse. When I went to BS (heh), the problems all but disappeared. Came back here, problems followed.

Is my brain perhaps struggling with the font? Another interesting note: old.lemmy.world is far worse for me than the newer version. Can I permanently change the font for an entire site? I’m sure it’s doable, but I could use best-practice advice.

(Not seeing errors on this post, but if there are any I’m leaving them.)

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fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Font or contrast can make a difference for people having trouble to read due to eye problems of disorders like dyslexia.
I cannot tell anything about your case but you could try using accessibility settings in your browser to replace the default fonts entirely with specialized ones or just make it bigger.
As for your problem, it can be anything from natural ageing of your eyes to something far worth. Please keep an eye (no pun intended) on it and consider seeking medical help if your problem stays. Good luck!

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Contrast was the same, dark theme, white text on black. Don’t have any form of dyslexia far as I know. Only human I knew that read more and faster than I was dad, who funny enough, had reverse dyslexia. LOL, that man literally couldn’t write his own name on a bank check. “Robert” came out “Rqqqewt”, but he could plow 4-5 short novels on a Saturday afternoon and discuss the contents.
  
  As to aging and such, keep in mind, the issue went away on another site and seems to be WAY better on regular lemmy.world. Old.lemmy.world has a different font. But how does that affect my writing?! Weird, if true.
  
  I’ll experiment with default browser faults! I really only want to change old.lemmy so I can test. It’s an interesting problem to be sure.
  
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  - mschae@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There are browser addons you can use to change the styling on individual sites, like Stylus for Firefox. They require some knowledge of CSS though.
    
    For example, to change the font of the comment input field to your browser’s default sans-serif font:
    
    @-moz-document domain("old.lemmy.world") { .savecomment textarea { font-family: sans-serif; } }
    
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  - faythofdragons@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Your dad may have had something called “dysgraphia”, which is similar to dyslexia but affects spelling instead of reading.
    
    I’ve got dyscalculia, which is similar to dyslexia, but has to do with numbers.
    
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  - fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I just noticed you have different themes with different fonts in vanilla lemmy.world. It could be worth a shot to try them.
    
    It’s in lemmy.world/settings --> Theme
    
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  - cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you have any basic CSS/HTML knowledge and you’re using a firefox-based browser (or maybe it’s on other browsers too IDK) the addon Stylus allows you to easily create custom stylesheets for any site. It’s very powerful.
    
    Something like:
    
    body { font-family: "Your-Prefered-Fontname-Goes-Here"; }
    
    is probably sufficient in most cases.
    
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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
…I also make a ton more typos on Lemmy than elsewhere and I have no idea why. I thought it was an update to my phone’s keyboard. Or my touch screen is misaligned or something.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I changed to the dyslexic font on a whim and I do kinda feel I read things better with it.

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palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Someone else mentioned a browser add-on that lets you modify fonts on a per-site basis, but there are other add-ons in the same niche that don't require stylesheet knowledge if that puts you off at all.

As for errors, I'll sometimes not completely revise a sentence if I decide to rewrite for tense or aspect, and end up with words missing or in weird grammatical places. And then I'll not see it after three or four checks. Including when coming back to check whether people liked my comment or not.

And then bam, fifth visit, I can't parse what I've written because cabbage there's a wrong word in the middle of a sentence or I've one out entirely. (I did that for effect, but I can't vouch for the previous two paragraphs. Yet.)

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