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I'm a sucker for cool typography.

• davepeck 17y ago
  Haha! As it happens, I watched Helvetica a few days before I built this site. I had in mind the typographer who was viscerally angry about Helvetica's popularity; he described Helvetica as "textual dung." I decided I disagree!
  • jacobolus 17y ago
    Too bad Safari doesn't ever kern: those Yo pairs end up garish, whatever the font.
    • davepeck 17y ago
      Is this a Safari thing or a Webkit thing? I notice it in Chrome too.
      • jacobolus 17y ago
        Apparently it’s a webkit thing, done for performance reasons. On IRC, it was claimed that when they last tried it, kerning slowed text rendering down 25% (because it makes it impossible to cache some glyph metrics or something), but that was apparently quite a while ago, and they said it "might be a good idea to test again".