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Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by jerrre on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:14AM (#17940165)
Strange how the italic version seems much less bad.
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Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by sdx23 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:46AM (#17940378)
less bad? To me it's awful with the different thicknesses (not sure, perhaps something is broken with how it's rendered here).

https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png

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Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by aasasd on Saturday September 08, 2018 @07:00AM (#17940405)
Doesn't look like that on Mac. Seems like a bad case of disabled ClearType, aka subpixel anti-aliasing. Dunno if the font also contributes to that.
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Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be by rubyfan on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:19AM (#17940562)
Thanks for that, I realized I block web fonts and wasn’t seeing the badness.
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