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John-Mark Gurney 🗑️🔥
@encthenet
If you don't like the new font for twitter, here's a quick solution.
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so yeah. Assuming you're using ublock origin, go into settings, my filters, and paste these two lines: abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-re abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-bo
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Daniel Micay
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It looks fine on Android and Windows 10 but it's hideous on my Linux workstation. Not rendering properly at all. I might need to turn off font hinting because harfbuzz gave up on doing it properly. I don't think I mind how it looks when it's actually being rendered properly.
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Daniel Micay
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I don't think it's actually part of harfbuzz itself but they dropped support for font rendering able to match Windows somewhere in the stack and it's really noticeable with this font. github.com/harfbuzz/harfb I guess it might be something to do with Pango, Cairo or FreeType.
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No/broken kerning for a large number of fonts · Issue #2394 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz
I really don't know what to do 'cause Pango/RH developers are unwilling to cooperate or even admit the issue, so it's my last resort. The pertinent details are here: https:/...
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Daniel Micay
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@encthenet
All I know is that there was a point where I had decent font rendering on Linux with appropriate configuration and I don't have it anymore. It looks great with 250+ DPI with hinting disabled (i.e. Android) but it looks terrible on my 4k 27" monitors no matter what now.
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Daniel Micay
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The hinting support is totally screwed up so it looks fine on Android because it's made for high DPI screens and just doesn't do any hinting like macOS/iOS. Windows is where there's really fancy hinting support but open source stack only properly supported it via dead patches.
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