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Hector Martin
@marcan42
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
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
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@marcan42
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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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
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@DanielMicay
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@marcan42
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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