Did Google disable line height on search?

Question

Since this afternoon I&rsquo;ve been noticing that Google search results have zero line height, making them hard to read.Is this a bug or some sort of AB test? It&rsquo;s happening on multiple devices.

jagtesh · Accepted Answer

Yeah, absolutely driving me nuts. The readability has suffered for me.Oddly, I opened a private tab on Safari - which was a not part of the test and had the older line height. It had a settings icon at the top of results page with an option to enable Dark Mode! Wish I was in that test cohort :-/

fcoury · Answer

I thought either I was going crazy or I had some fishy extension changing the search results CSS. Good to know it's none :-)

nightpool · Answer

Just ran into the same issue, yeah. Seems to be user-account based A/B test

cpach · Answer

I also noticed something was off. Looks very weird. No idea why it is like that.

Did Google disable line height on search?

Since this afternoon I’ve been noticing that Google search results have zero line height, making them hard to read.
Is this a bug or some sort of AB test? It’s happening on multiple devices.

Yeah, absolutely driving me nuts. The readability has suffered for me.
Oddly, I opened a private tab on Safari - which was a not part of the test and had the older line height. It had a settings icon at the top of results page with an option to enable Dark Mode! Wish I was in that test cohort :-/

I thought either I was going crazy or I had some fishy extension changing the search results CSS. Good to know it's none :-)

Just ran into the same issue, yeah. Seems to be user-account based A/B test

I also noticed something was off. Looks very weird. No idea why it is like that.