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It's like some designer at Twitter with zero typography experience looked at a font catalog and said "oh that looks like a nice font!"... and then they slapped a new name on it and shipped it, with zero quality checks or expert evaluation by actual typographers.

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Aug 13, 2021

Crooked :), badly padded `backticks`, bold rendering that looks like mush on some platforms... and it doesn't quite give me a headache but I can *see* how it would for some people. It's just... not nice to read. At all.

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It has ridiculously broken hinting so it looks horrifying on a non-HiDPI monitor with Windows/Linux. It ends up with inconsistent vertical alignment. It looks like they auto-generated hinting data in a way that's somehow far worse than FreeType's auto-hinter which is impressive.

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The height / placement of the letters gets all screwed up and not aligned. I'm usually using two 27" 4k monitors which is 161 DPI and it looks pretty bad on both Windows and Linux. Have Linux on left and Windows on the right so it's easy to compare. Windows looks slightly better.

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I don't really mind how it looks on my phones or laptop. I don't like the font but at least it doesn't look ridiculously warped. I'm sure it looks a lot worse on a 96 DPI monitor but I don't have any old monitors to check since they either died or were given away to other people.