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		sdx23 on Sept 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to ... less bad? To me it's awful with the different thicknesses (not sure, perhaps something is broken with how it's rendered here). https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png

aasasd on Sept 8, 2018 | [–]

Doesn't look like that on Mac. Seems like a bad case of disabled ClearType, aka subpixel anti-aliasing. Dunno if the font also contributes to that.

rubyfan on Sept 8, 2018 | [–]

Thanks for that, I realized I block web fonts and wasn’t seeing the badness.

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