Facebook Testing Different Fonts For News Feed
When Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the social network’s redesigned News Feed last March, he repeatedly referred to it as a “personalized newspaper.” And a new News Feed design the social network is currently testing, which was discovered by Fast Company’s Co.Design, indicates a further push to bring newspaper-like elements to Facebook’s primary destination.
When Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the social network’s redesigned News Feed last March, he repeatedly referred to it as a “personalized newspaper.” And a new News Feed design the social network is currently testing, which was discovered by Fast Company’s Co.Design, indicates a further push to bring newspaper-like elements to Facebook’s primary destination.
Co.Design reported that Facebook is experimenting with a serif font for news headlines, adding that those typefaces are commonly used by newspapers for body copy, while sans-serif fonts such as Helvetica are more commonly used online.
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