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by jamal-kumar 1521 days ago
oh wow are you justine?

i've been meaning to ask you this for a decade. whatever happened to when you wrote a blog with insanely irritating serifs that connected certain letters together? what was the rationale behind that? never seen it since

I'm insanely impressed by APE and redbean by the way, blows OP out of the water!

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Oh you mean the blog with the long s? I was reading a lot of books at the time that were written before 1800 and I found it so fascinating how different typography was back then. I found a font I could pay for called Quant that did a really good job reproducing archaic ligatures and the long s, so I used it on a blog for a short period of time. Sadly it got negative feedback. So lately I've been focusing on https://justine.lol/ which uses Roboto. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it!
ahhh ligatures, that's the word I was looking for here. Yeah it was kind of irritating but good blog content so I just read it anyways. it was kind of hard not to read it as someone lisping everything though.
Perhaps next time I'll blog in elvish cryptograms.
mayan hieroglyphics or bust