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by dandroid1 4444 days ago
What's with the article's font? Very annoying to read. Looks like a printer running out of ink.
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pyronite 4444 days ago
Are you running it in Chrome/Windows?

If so: Chrome's font rendering uses GDI rather than DirectWrite and it leads to some very ugly rendering with certain web fonts. This is a known issue and they are working on changing this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692#c...

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dandroid1 4444 days ago
Yup, I am. Thanks for the info.
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pakile 4444 days ago
Haha, thanks for pointing that out. I'll play around with it after dinner and try to find something less annoying.
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atmosx 4444 days ago
Yeah, I agree. Extremely pure choice of <p> color, given the white background.
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pokpokpok 4444 days ago
zoom you browser in 10% (ctrl+). i get this issue on a lot of personal blogs and this always fixes it to some degree
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