[atr2]

No, it's not subpixel anti-aliasing. It's a completely different font. It looks like Roboto to me, while the rest of the email is written using Helvetica.

DOM manipulation, of course. But not everybody knows about it. So most people default to Photoshop, which is what these people did.

This email is FORGED, and I'd like to know why.

[zaarn]

If the email was forged I would expect more occurences than a single letter. This may simply be an artifact of either compression or the font renderer.

There is also a lack of google employees in this thread coming forward to confirm it's a fake.

In the screenshot you can clearly see they blanked out the email, subtle changes in the image may have resulted from this blanking process (for example if resolution has been changed, which I suspect is the case)

[GenericsMotors]

> DOM manipulation, of course. But not everybody knows about it. So most people default to Photoshop, which is what these people did.

They're web developers, and you're suggesting they don't know how to manipulate the DOM?

> This email is FORGED, and I'd like to know why.

The fact you're using a throwaway account to make the accusation suggests you're not too sure yourself, and you know your "evidence" is beyond flimsy.

[atr2]

I am 100% sure that font is Roboto, while the rest of the email is written using Helvetica. This is not a throwaway, I just registered.

[GenericsMotors]

> I am 100% sure that font is Roboto

Okay this is just ridiculous. Have you tried searching Google for the string that you think is forged?

Try searching for the following, taken from the "fake" portion of the email: "based on your high usage it appears you are eligible for volume pricing discounts, enterprise-grade customer support, and/or offline contracts"

The very first hit is one of Google's pricing pages for their Maps platform:

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-ch...

Which says (highlight added by me):

    When do I need an Enterprise account?

    Businesses with high-volume usage who are looking for volume pricing discounts,
    **enterprise-grade** customer support, and/or offline contracts should contact
    us about setting up an Enterprise account.

They've obviously reused text between this page and their client update emails. Now please explain how this fits into your conspiracy theory.

EDIT:

The font used on Google's pricing page is Roboto, which means that the discrepancy is Google's fault as someone obviously did a bad copy/paste job when preparing emails for clients.

If nothing else, you have a good eye for fonts I guess.

Care to retract your accusation now?

[Doctor_Fegg]

If you’re going to manipulate the DOM (typically via the dev console) it seems vanishingly unlikely you’d insert a new span with a different font rather than just overtyping the text.

[atr2]

You misunderstood. I am affirming, they have used Photoshop to insert text in that screenshot, and they have mistakenly used another font, Roboto. It's easily noticeable, as it's narrower, and some glyphs (like that "g") are different.