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by w1ntermute 5625 days ago
Is the font rendering on this guy's site screwed up for anyone else? The "t"'s have something wrong with them: http://ompldr.org/vNzVrZg/why_i_wrote_a_programmers_text_edi...

Firefox 3.6 on Linux.

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He is using font face embedding of the 'Droid Serif'. Probably some issue with the typography conversion or with windows rendering the fonts badly (i get the weird t also in windows 7).
Seems to be an issue with the Droid font files. I'll look into it.
Looks okay on chrome 9 on ubuntu lts:

His two font choices Georgia: http://i.imgur.com/Lp6QL.png

Droid Serif: http://i.imgur.com/0Kja4.png

Yeah, it looks OK for me in Chromium (dev channel) & Opera as well.
As for screwness: when I try to enlarge fonts using FF 3.6 Ctrl-+, I suddently get a gray band on the right that hides half of the text.

I cannot read the default font, sorry.

I didn't notice, gray on white background is a bit hard to see.
Came in to say that his "t"s looked really weird. Chrome.
I think it is a bug in the font he's fetching.
Chrome 8.0 on Windows 7, yes.