HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weekend hack."

Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by davepeck on Sunday June 28, 2009 @07:46PM (#678259)

Haha!

As it happens, I watched Helvetica a few days before I built this site. I had in mind the typographer who was viscerally angry about Helvetica's popularity; he described Helvetica as "textual dung." I decided I disagree!

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by jacobolus on Sunday June 28, 2009 @09:55PM (#678354)

Too bad Safari doesn't ever kern: those Yo pairs end up garish, whatever the font.

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by davepeck on Monday June 29, 2009 @01:39AM (#678569)

Is this a Safari thing or a Webkit thing? I notice it in Chrome too.

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by jacobolus on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:57AM (#685647)

Apparently it’s a webkit thing, done for performance reasons. On IRC, it was claimed that when they last tried it, kerning slowed text rendering down 25% (because it makes it impossible to cache some glyph metrics or something), but that was apparently quite a while ago, and they said it "might be a good idea to test again".

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