# Are we not allowed to use different fonts anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 29, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-not-allowed-to-use-different-fonts-anymore/718776 "2015-04-29T04:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 88
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-not-allowed-to-use-different-fonts-anymore/718776/88 "2015-04-30T02:19:39Z")
> [@Miss\_Spaulding](#): > > No. _ **Obviously** _ I wouldn’t have continued to use it if I knew it was so difficult to read for everyone else. It doesn’t show up like that on my own computer screen, so I had no idea. You misunderstand. I am colorblind. I don’t see green very well. That’s what I meant by 10% of the population has trouble reading your posts. That wasn’t how it appeared to me exactly, it’s a simulation of the sort of the low contrast problem you generated for my vision. [This site](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb263953%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) is intended for web designer but it discusses color selection and text with several illustrations as to why that can be a problem for those of us whose color vision isn’t normal. While I wasn’t as bothered by your color selection as many others here, it’s largely because I couldn’t see your posts very well. In many ways, it’s as if you were on “ignore” from my viewpoint. Unfortunate, if you were saying something I was interested in reading. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-not-allowed-to-use-different-fonts-anymore/718776)._