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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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whoa, actually had to check - there *isn't* a space after the starting backtick. as for the headaches thing, I find it's fine on web, but on my phone it makes me a bit dizzy to read, it looks poorly hinted or something

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It looks like they just auto-generated hinting data and didn't tune it at all. It looks better with the FreeType auto-hinter which is saying a lot. Don't think macOS uses hinting at all so it should look fine there, but macOS rendering is always blurry for non-HiDPI due to that.

11:19 AM · Aug 13, 2021Twitter Web App

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I'm used to Source Sans Pro, Source Code Pro, Roboto, Liberation, etc. which all have properly crafted hinting data. They render as well on Linux as Windows as long as the distribution uses all the patented features like Arch, Ubuntu, Android, etc. Only Arial, etc. look worse.