> the lines above and below the letter

Serifs is the word you are looking for.

Hmm, from examining the font style in the stylesheet, and playing around it looks like Verdana is preferred, and then it falls back to Geneva, and then some default sans-serif.[1] Verdana has serifs though, and Geneva either doesn't or I don't have Geneva, so that seems an odd choice of preferences and fall backs.

1: The CSS is "font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"

Looks like you've outnerded me. Well done.

Hmm, what was lost in revising that comment was the sentence noting that I have swrifs on every device I view HN on, so I was wondering what you were viewing it on. It seems odd that it would change that much between devices when explicitly defined with fallbacks, which is why it's an odd config.

Don't the Final Fantasy games use Roman numerals for numbering anyway?

I guess you're right. Maybe I just have FF1 on the brain. Either that or 3 remakes wasn't enough.