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tompagenet2 on Dec 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Be careful what you put in an email

Off topic, but why does the text on this website look so awful in Chrome 15 in Win7 64? There are actually gaps in the letters. It looks awful in a different way in Firefox 8 - clumpy letters with awkwardly variable line width.

Update to clarify that it's the text that looks weird

benhoyt on Dec 6, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, those are terrible letter shapes. It happens in IE8 on Windows XP for me too.

sp332 on Dec 5, 2011 | [–]

I think the hinting on this font is broken in Chrome for some reason.

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