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I am not a font snob but the lower case u is 20% taller than the other lower case letters (on my Chrome on Ubuntu 18). Distracting. Anyway, the article was go
by jimhefferon 5y ago
I am not a font snob but the lower case u is 20% taller than the other lower case letters (on my Chrome on Ubuntu 18). Distracting.
Anyway, the article was good.
- lupire 5y agoUbuntu users unsurprisingly unenthused enduring unfriendly u's.
- tejohnso 5y agoAnd the t is about half the size of the h. I found the font trying too hard to be unique, and the content just boring. I gave up on both after about the fourth paragraph.
- lelandfe 5y agoGoudy Old Style, though it's not a particularly strange font. Many serif fonts feature tall ascenders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography)
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI too was so upset about the font choices I made a prezi presentation about the obvious problems and took them to show to another developer during lunch at our favorite cafe, it was as I was on the third slide comparing the h with letters h of other more conventional fonts that I could feel them sliding away from me.