I personally love the serif body text, but I’m a bit biased with a old-school printing-making background.
I agree that a user setting would be an awesome thing (much like reader-view on mobile safari). With caches (normal and service worker’s) the FOUT can be reduced to just when choicing the setting. The user setting could also lay the groundwork for a possible dark theme.
I hadn't thought about the user setting for the reader angle and you're definitely in the right about how it would be a clear stepping stone towards dark theme options. Really it's all about how the reader wants to consume it. This is really good food for thought.
I personally love the serif body text, but I’m a bit biased with a old-school printing-making background.
I agree that a user setting would be an awesome thing (much like reader-view on mobile safari). With caches (normal and service worker’s) the FOUT can be reduced to just when choicing the setting. The user setting could also lay the groundwork for a possible dark theme.
I hadn't thought about the user setting for the reader angle and you're definitely in the right about how it would be a clear stepping stone towards dark theme options. Really it's all about how the reader wants to consume it. This is really good food for thought.
One thing to consider here is that post-authors might want to be able to view the serif and sans versions of their posts.