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Is this font designed for HiDpI displays? It really looks bad on my fullhd laptop and on my 32 inch 4k monitor.

• waldothedog 3y ago
  In what way does it look bad? Historically, digital-focus fonts have been drawn specifically to handle very lo res displays, or very small print applications (optical embellishment, ink traps, etc)… but given that type designers are notoriously detail oriented and that font files are collections of vectors, I can’t see a reason why the design would lead to these effects. Ironically (since this is a Microsoft post) Windows often mangles type display, so can browser settings and CSS defaults/resets.
  • waldothedog 3y ago
    For clarification, that was a “in what way?” to get more information, not to dispute that it looks fugly for you.
    • chfalck 3y ago
      It’s also possible this commenter is seeing a fallback default font if Atpos is not available / didn’t download correctly on their system configuration
    • giva 3y ago
      It may as well be down to a matter of taste, but I found it quite harder to read. I tried to find what exactly i dislike about it, and the impression I get is that the weight and the spacing (kerning?) is inconsistent on the line. It reminds me a bit of linux desktop before the availability of decent free fonts.
  • Const-me 3y ago
    > In what way does it look bad? For example, on my 27” 4k display with 150% DPI scaling, I can’t easily distinguish commas from dots. I’ve been using displays like that for a decade now. Aptos is the only font with that issue.