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Bembo-like font is atrocious. Kerning is horrible. Small caps have different stroke widths. Tufte’s style is ok, just the open-source Bembo bad-clone font is
by piskov 1y ago
Bembo-like font is atrocious.
Kerning is horrible.
Small caps have different stroke widths.
Tufte’s style is ok, just the open-source Bembo bad-clone font is very-very bad.
- imiric 1y agoI'm usually sensitive to such issues, but I'm not seeing it in this case. Can you point out where that's most visible? Or screenshot it? Maybe it has to do with font rendering on your system. It looks fine for me on Windows and Firefox. Hhmm although upon a closer look, the kerning in "We" is a bit wide. But the small caps look fine to me. If this is the only thing, I'd hardly label it "atrocious".
- piskov 1y agoBasically every problematic pair with one of the letters being uppercased Tu in Tufte Pl in Please We in Webpages Al in Also Punctuatuion symbols as in Finally, Markdown’s As for small caps, on apple this is really bad “In his later books” List goes on Cursive in “as close as possible” has stroke width not matching the regular font. In regular font uppercased letters have thicker strokes than lowercased. It’s really on OCD level triggering event to read that text.
- stronglikedan 1y ago> Basically every problematic pair with one of the letters being uppercased And to make it even more whacky, even that is not consistent. Dave, Markdown, and Github are fine, to name a few. It's like two letters can't share the same space - whatever the word for that is (kerning?).
- imiric 1y agoHeh you're right, it is bad. I don't see it on "Please", "Also", and the small caps, but agree with the rest.