Japanese Font Thicker and Harder to Read?

[TetraShiva]

Doing my Japanese review today I can’t help but notice that the fonts for hiragana, katakana, and kanji are all a bit thicker before and slightly harder to read. Is this something on my end or are others also experiencing this?

[alanh]

It’s being discussed here:

[Improvement] Japanese font updated

Hey folks - just a quick update that we’ve changed the font for all Japanese courses (and Japanese across the site) to use Noto Sans JP. This was initially because it’s the typeface we’re supposed to use within the Memrise brand, but from a personal pov, this is a more readable, less ornate representation of Hiragana and Katakana (for those who don’t know, the Noto family is a Google initiative where they’re trying to make an accessible, readable font for all the world’s languages. You can read …

[TetraShiva]

Ah, thanks. For some reason that thread didn’t appear the last time I loaded up the forums.