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by trinari 73 days ago
uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
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SAI_Peregrinus 73 days ago
Not entirely. The font "size" is the height of each character, not the width they take up or the stroke thickness. So some fonts will have narrow characters & display more characters horizontally than fonts with wider characters.
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lstodd 73 days ago
It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.
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