Readable Readability
With web applications such as Readability or (my favorite) Readable, it’s much easier to read articles on screen.
(UPDATE: Add Safari Reader to the list. A built-in browser feature FTW.)
This raises an interesting question: Why isn’t typography, more specifically readability, given more priority in web design?
At the very least, I could imagine a built-in browser feature on a site that would overlay the article over the page when activated (like a seamlessly integrated Readable.)
While that would be cool, it would be nice to see the news organizations, bloggers, or anyone publishing any amount of written content on the web take this into consideration. Perhaps treat it like a standard?