Modern Font Stacks

by feross • 3 years ago

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circuit10• 3 years ago

How come last time there were only 38 points but 69 comments, but now there are 325 points but I’m the first to comment?

Flollop• 3 years ago

Archive shows a different comment that is no longer present: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315144657/https://news.ycom...

irskep2• 3 years ago

@dang, it looks like all comments from an hour+ ago on this article have been deleted. They were OK comments, is there a bug?

yawpitch• 3 years ago

Shame, some of the comments were quite helpful.

irskep2• 3 years ago

Looks like it was just a different link that somehow beat the other one to the front page for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35150345

timvdalen• 3 years ago

Weird, it must have split! I tried to upvote a comment on that post, and was redirected to this one (without the comment present)

aidenn0• 3 years ago

There are only 5 different fonts total displayed on that page for my configuration:

Noto Serif

Noto Sans

Deja Vu Serif

Deja Vu Sans

Deja Vu Sans Mono

jamesfisher• 3 years ago

What does it mean, "no downloading"? How is that possible?

nikmolnar• 3 years ago

It looks like they've selected similar fonts that are installed on each system. E.g., for the "Transitional" font on macOS, it uses "Charter", on Linux it uses "Bitstream Charter", on Windows it uses "Sitka Text", and so on. So not every user will see the exact same font, but they'll all see fonts with similar properties.

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