We just pushed out an update which improves the readability of articles by combining a new grid and a new set of fonts. Here is a screenshot:
We added preference knobs to empower you to change the font family and font sizes to your liking:
Happy eyes! Happy reading!
/Edwin and Arthur
Excellent.
Love the new font options! The font family changes happen for me immediately, but I’m seeing no changes in font size. I’m running Firefox 33 on Win8 with Feedly 25.0.902.
I don’t see any changes at all..
Same here. No changes in font size. FF 34, Win7.
Sorry. There was a caching issue. It should be fixed now if you reload feedly.com -Edwin
I noticed that font style takes effect right away, but for font size, you have to refresh the page (not keyboard shortcut ‘r’, but a refresh of the browser page). Hope this helps.
Thanks, that does work for me.
Sorry. There was a caching issue. It should be fixed now if you reload feedly.com -Edwin
Font size is always largest, preferences do not work, cannot read more than the article headline all over the screen!
Please repair or revert! (I always prefer to use the font setting of my browser.)
Same here. The font size has changed to HUGE. The article now occupies my entire 22 inch screen. I have gone to settings and changes the font size to small, but it has no effect. Please do something quickly.
Same problem, font size are HUGE, nothing I do works.
Agree with the above; please add a way to revert the font/spacing back to the previous version.
Same here. I hate the changes made. My fonts look awful and I can’t find the preferences to change it.
Ditto. Using FF 34.0.5. Already cleared the cache and restarted FF. In Chrome, however, all settings are being honored…I just don’t use Chrome.
New fonts look nice.
Too bad the unread link color setting no longer works. Don’t know if it is related or not though.
The unread and read colors should continue to be honored. Can you please clear your cache and go to http://feedly.com/i/my
Yes, it seems it just got fixed. Great!
Colors for title doesn’t work. I had titles in green or blue, and now it’s Black or Grey. And it’ always the same every new version.
Sorry. There was a caching issue. It should be fixed now if you reload feedly.com -Edwin
Neither do I see font size change. There’s no difference between them. I’d really appreciate you guys fix it.
Sorry. There was a caching issue. It should be fixed now if you reload feedly.com -Edwin
Also here no change :-(
Firefox 34.0.5 Window 7 professional
I’m not seeing anything.
That’s on IE, Firefox and Chrome Canary.
Same here, Firefox 34.0 on Win7/64 Ultimate, ESET Smart Security.
Mee too :-(
FF 34, Chrome 39, Opera 12, IE 11
Same for me. Firefox 34 on Win7.
Ohh, now it’s working… looks fixed now… :-)
Yes, it’s back. Thanks Feedly-peeps!
Please add a feature for see must engaging posts up to 20 or 40.
Nice. Sure wish there was a font-color choice for whether the current article I’m viewing is marked as Read or Unread though. I can use the ‘M’ key to mark as read/unread but there’s absolutely no visual feedback of the state when I do that.
+1!
Awesome!
Are there supposed to be previews for the fonts? It would be nice if the font preferences were actually in the specific font (they all look identical to me), so we don’t have to go through each one to see which we prefer.
Still no way to view the left panel all the time on tablets – why waste so much space?
Thanks a lot! Is there any way to change the background from White to a darker color?
Hmmm… can’t say I like any of the options. The only comfortable one for me is the sans serif. What I noticed particularly is that, when the sans serif font is used, the ‘matching’ serif font for indented text is really a pain to read – it’s very thin and uneven looking, almost cartoony and it’s a huge contrast to the main sans serif font – it’s a completely different style, which hampers readability. Would it be possible to fix that one?
Fixed. Please refresh. Thanks for the feedback.
I got a problem with the new font: it looks corrupted
I forgot to mention the browser: Google Chrome v. 41.0.2243.0 dev-m (64-bit)
Same here with Slab Serif font on Chrome. I have the same problem on The Guardian site, so I think it’s a Chrome problem. On Firefox this font is shown allright.
Is there a way to make the body section span the full width to the left side area though?? Of course have a little padding there. I have unused white space that would love to get used in Feedly! The more I expand the window the more white space wants to be filled..
I agree have way too much white space when I open an article
The motivation of the white space is that research shows that your eyes would get tired if the lines where longer.
that may be the research but the fonts are still too big (and i’ve cleared the cache) I prefer the longer lines as I scan the articles quickly. the larger font and shorter lines is offensive and assumes that I have poor eyesight
My eyes get tired more from all that blinding white space than from reading longer lines.
even after changing the font size and article density it is still way too big. too much white space
but I appreciate your trying
Agreed. On the “small” setting the text is now at least 2, and I’d wager 2.5 times the size it used to be. I’m struggling to get one whole article on a 1920×1080 display.
Screen ruler overlaid for size comparison. I’m all for readability but it doesn’t need to be readable from the moon.
Same problem here. Please fix it soon. I am addicted to news and feedly.
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this will be great…………eye sight is not so good now……………
any change of a translate for some blogs I follow are written in other languages……………
The new fonts stuff is not making me happy.
I have feeds where I choose “Full Article” and now the headlines and stories are rendered in HUGE fonts. Changing the preferences make no difference. Can we please go back?
Ditto. Headlines and text are massive; changing the prefs and reloading only manage to change the font, not the size. Being able to see only a dozen lines of text at a time on my screen does _not_ help readability. (Firefox 34, Mac OS)
Headlines and body text in opened articles are approx 5 times too large. Feedly size preference has no discernible effect (refreshed page too). This makes it practically unusable.
Firefox 34.0 with NoSquint Addon, OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Adding that the problem exists for me on FF34, Mac, but NOT on Safari. Hmmm.
Yep, i have the same problem with headlines and body text that are huge. Clearing cache and reloading does nothing. I’m on Firefox 34.0, Windows Server 2008.
Oh good, it’s not just me. Firefox 28, Mac (Mountain Lion), holy cats the gigantic fonts.
I seventh that, Full Article headlines are in something like 36pt font and the article text is probably about 20pt font. Not usable in its current form, please fix! I’m on Firefox 34.0.5, Win7.
Found the fix: restarting FF with no add ons and the problem remains. In FF preferences:
Content, Fonts & Colors, Advanced…, Minimum Font Size: None
Hope this helps someone else.
That fixes Feedly, but leaves me messed up for every other webpage instead.
I was so excited by the graphic at the top! I thought you’d eliminated that weird tabbed view thing. Oh well.
Did the actual reading window get a bunch narrower? I now have a ton of unused space between the column in which the actual articles appear and the column on the left listing the feeds to which I subscribe.
Wish I could change it back. Having them closer together allowed me to move more quickly.
Why is it that when I navigate between articles using k and j, does the c key say “clipboard not available on the web”, but when I navigate using (the less convenient) p and n (because I then have to hit enter to go into the article), the c key allows me to clip to evernote. Just wondering.
But why flickr images in the became so small?..
oops, But why flickr images in the ‘Full Articles’ feed became so small?..
I prefer a denser, less whitespace heavy format. Is it possible to add more advanced configuration options?
and one more problem with feed – http://clip2net.com/s/38wSBC4
Line spacing for article text is *way* too big for good readability. I would suggest something more like 2.5rem instead of 3.35 for body text (and 3 instead of 4 for headlines).
I agree that line spacing is way too big. With a medium font size on Chrome the space between the lines is noticeably larger than the height of the lines themselves. Interestingly it doesn’t seem as bad on Firefox.
Is there still no pinterest functionality on the mobile version?! is there plans for that??
Let’s please have a “Colored List View” option that would automatically give each of one’s RSS feeds a different color/hue/tone, i.e., different colors for different sources, not items, for super-fast scanning. There was an extension to the former Google Reader that did this, and the feature was superb. I’d pay for this.
Preview not working. I keep getting preview disabled browser over https? On Safari. Tried restarting but this didn’t help.
I really dislike huge line spacing and giant article titles, since my style of reading is the “headline only” mode and I hit the J/K keys to get through a lot of items quickly. Large fonts & white space slows me down as too much scrolling is required. I am using a custom style sheet that puts things the way I like it, if anyone wants to give it a try it’s here:
https://github.com/clundie/better-feedly-style
The fonts look huge! Using a Mac with firefox 34. I used the small font and refreshed the page and I cannot see difference between any font size.
Line spacing is RIDICULOUS! Please, it wasn’t broken before, just reset the line spacing. Even with small fonts there’s way too much space in between each line. This is a pretty crappy change :(
When will you improve email sharing (with Gmail)? The web app still only includes the article title and a link. The Android app is a little better, including some of the article text and its source, but not the author, images, and such. I’ve seen emails forwarded with the iOS Feedly app; they’re much better, but also include ads from some articles.
any chance at a windows/windows phone app?
The line-height setting is too large. The low information density is frustrating for content of any length.
Yes, the line height settings is terribly huge, reading experience with new template is worse than the old one.
Since I am not using ClearType, the new font looks very very bad (in Chrome, anyway), so just make sure you never remove the option to use “Sans-Serif”. :)
How about showing examples right beside the settings?!
To be honest, I really have no clue how “Lora” differs from “Slab Serif” or what’s the difference between “Cozy” and “Comfortable”.
How about themes for desktop? Current themes just color the border. I’d love to read articles on a black background.
which one is the old font?
for some reason I am unable to read time.com articles from the mobile version of feedly
I have to say that it’s not improving the readability for me. The fonts are too big, and the font-size preference makes no difference. [Cleared cache, reloaded page, no change. FF 34.0.5] Combined with the wide margins in each article (max-width: 647px even in a fullscreen (1920 px) browser?), this makes for very short lines of text, which for me is a pain as it means more scrolling.
Thanks for a great new upgrade! Love the font options. :)
sans-serif by default would be much better for readability!
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It seems that this update resolved some issues for me one the title contains both RTL and LTR content (Like Arabic and English in the same time). Thanks and keep the good work.
Default font in Hebrew is awful. I was glad to find this post and changed the font to Sans Serif, which is a little better.
fonts are now ridiculously large, and content still takes like 40% of screen space, rest being blank.
this screenshot show about half the screen on retina mbpro with smallest font size.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/02r38xqmaabnco5/Screenshot%202014-12-11%2013.49.19.png?dl=0
macos 10.9, Firefox 34, min font size = 15 in browser.
was absolutely perfect before, please at least give an option to bring back old fonts (if the new “small” size is 7, “old size” should be about 3).
looks like mine
very nice!
great!
This is a disaster. The left and right margins were already too big for my liking, now the line height is also ridiculously huge. With the default settings there must be half as much body text on the screen as there was before. Even the “Small” font setting gives me larger text than before, and the line height is unaffected.
Happy eyes? My eyes are still bleeding at all the white space.
well I think the general consensus is that some work still needs to be done
Thanks, great update once again! :)
I would really like to have “Saved for later” as option for “Start Page” in the Preferences – will this be implemented any time or could it be added to the suggestions list? :)
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How do I change the order of the feed within a category?
Congrats on such a great web-based tool. I actually prefer using it in Win8 IE to the NextGen reader app on Windows 8.
Love this look, now can you just fix the app so that working a list with ‘j’ will fetch the remaining unread articles.
Nice. At my age (47), my eyes need all the readability help the Web can give.
Text was huge in Firefox. I found that I had the Minimum Font Size set to 14 in my Firefox options which the 2rem style applied to .entryBody was doubling.