[HN Gopher] The 'Ahem' Font
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       The 'Ahem' Font
        
       Author : slater
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-06-08 15:03 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (web-platform-tests.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (web-platform-tests.org)
        
       | ssalka wrote:
       | Without reading the other comments here, I can't tell what this
       | font looks like, and I don't care to dig deeper to find out.
        
       | frizlab wrote:
       | Not a single screenshot, I'm disappointed.
        
         | owlninja wrote:
         | Same! Appears to be some more info/usage here:
         | 
         | https://github.com/Hydrock/AhemFont
        
       | tombh wrote:
       | I need a font (or some other method) to display the UTF8 Full
       | Block for _all_ characters, including CJK. Does anybody know of
       | anything?
       | 
       | It's for rendering in Browsh, a text-based web browser:
       | https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75
        
       | soperj wrote:
       | Looks like it's entirely consistent of squares:
       | 
       | https://hydrock.github.io/AhemFont/
       | 
       | It's used for testing line heights (still confused about how
       | though)
        
       | CharlesW wrote:
       | Can someone smarter than me explain what this is for? (I've read
       | https://github.com/Hydrock/AhemFont and
       | https://hydrock.github.io/AhemFont/.)
        
         | re wrote:
         | For writing portable, reliable tests for web browsers.
         | 
         | > The web-platform-tests project is a cross-browser test suite
         | for the Web-platform stack. Writing tests in a way that allows
         | them to be run in all browsers gives browser projects
         | confidence that they are shipping software which is compatible
         | with other implementations, and that later implementations will
         | be compatible with their implementations.
         | 
         | https://web-platform-tests.org/
         | 
         | > Tests should be as cross-platform as reasonably possible,
         | working across different devices, screen resolutions, paper
         | sizes, etc. ... Fonts cannot be relied on to be either
         | installed or to have specific metrics. As such, in most cases
         | when a known font is needed, Ahem should be used and loaded as
         | a web font. In other cases, @font-face should be used.
         | 
         | https://web-platform-tests.org/writing-tests/general-guideli...
        
         | bombcar wrote:
         | I suppose you use it when you're adjusting things to "look
         | right" and need to know how big the character space actually is
         | (then you replace it with the real font you want to use)?
        
       | GuB-42 wrote:
       | It looks like a font to make unit tests for browsers. Nothing
       | obvious from the link though.
       | 
       | Also, why use these weird characters (X, p, E, Chinese
       | characters) for the test glyphs? What's wrong with simple ASCII?
        
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