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Why Substack can be tiring to read

Each Substack newsletter picks its own fonts and colors, so your reading experience changes from one writer to the next.

A good FontFlex setup for Substack

  • One reading font for every newsletter Pro
  • Text size one or two steps larger Free
  • Line height around 1.6 Pro

Only for Substack, if you like

Save these settings as a FontFlex profile and assign it to substack.com. Substack gets its own look while every other site keeps your default. Profiles are free.

New to FontFlex? The setup guide shows how to turn the extension on in Safari. It takes about a minute.

FontFlex is not affiliated with Substack. It changes how pages look on your device only.

Before

The quiet cost of hard-to-read pages

Small, thin type and tight lines make readers work harder. Many give up halfway down the page, and the words were never the problem.

With FontFlex

The quiet cost of hard-to-read pages

Small, thin type and tight lines make readers work harder. Many give up halfway down the page, and the words were never the problem.

Left: a typical website with small serif text. Right: the same text in Atkinson Hyperlegible, larger, with more line spacing.

Read Substack your way

Free to download. OpenDyslexic and text size are free, with no time limit. Upgrade to Pro only if you want more.

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