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If I look at 'willing' closely on that page, there is what I perceive to be about a 20% increase of spacing between the the second 'l' and the second 'i' charac

If I look at 'willing' closely on that page, there is what I perceive to be about a 20% increase of spacing between the the second 'l' and the second 'i' character. I didn't notice it at first, I had to look at it very closely.

dsr_ 8y ago
The kerning is absolutely perfect on my system, both Firefox and Chrome, both portrait and landscape. It looks nothing like the disaster on the article's snapshot. (Debian Stable, 3x 1920x1200 monitors, very likely I have tweaked most tweakable things at some point or another -- this system is 15 years old.)
- onli 8y ago
  Could you make a screenshot? But if the system is very old it is possible the bug is not present yet, the author mentioned it is caused by modern changes colliding with the hardcoded assumptions about the grid placement. If those are still current on your system it might just still work like it was supposed to.
  - dsr_ 8y ago
    When I say "the system is 15 years old" what I mean is that there is a continuity between the Pentium-III-550 with 128MB RAM -- running Debian 3 on a spinning IDE disk -- and the i5-4570 on my desk now with Debian 9.8 on 16GB and ZFS on two SSDs. The software has been continuously upgraded, the hardware has been occasionally upgraded; everything is up to date, but if I did something exciting to /etc/fonts.conf in 2014, that's probably still there.
onli 8y ago
That's horrible, isn't it? The author does have a valid bug there that really is a big issue if you care about this sort of thing (some people just don't care how fonts look and can't notice kerning issues), but the whole comment thread is discussing very subjective rendering differences between Windows, Linux and OSX, where Linux isn't even bad. Though I think the author did himself no favor with not leading with that bug.
- linuxftw 8y ago
  Meh. Not a huge deal, like I said, didn't even notice it. If I zoom to 110% or more, the spacing is fine.

dsr_ 8y ago

The kerning is absolutely perfect on my system, both Firefox and Chrome, both portrait and landscape. It looks nothing like the disaster on the article's snapshot. (Debian Stable, 3x 1920x1200 monitors, very likely I have tweaked most tweakable things at some point or another -- this system is 15 years old.)

onli 8y ago
Could you make a screenshot? But if the system is very old it is possible the bug is not present yet, the author mentioned it is caused by modern changes colliding with the hardcoded assumptions about the grid placement. If those are still current on your system it might just still work like it was supposed to.
- dsr_ 8y ago
  When I say "the system is 15 years old" what I mean is that there is a continuity between the Pentium-III-550 with 128MB RAM -- running Debian 3 on a spinning IDE disk -- and the i5-4570 on my desk now with Debian 9.8 on 16GB and ZFS on two SSDs. The software has been continuously upgraded, the hardware has been occasionally upgraded; everything is up to date, but if I did something exciting to /etc/fonts.conf in 2014, that's probably still there.

onli 8y ago

That's horrible, isn't it? The author does have a valid bug there that really is a big issue if you care about this sort of thing (some people just don't care how fonts look and can't notice kerning issues), but the whole comment thread is discussing very subjective rendering differences between Windows, Linux and OSX, where Linux isn't even bad. Though I think the author did himself no favor with not leading with that bug.

linuxftw 8y ago
Meh. Not a huge deal, like I said, didn't even notice it. If I zoom to 110% or more, the spacing is fine.