[HN Gopher] Text rendering hates you
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Text rendering hates you
Author : andsoitis
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-12-22 00:14 UTC (5 days ago)
(HTM) web link (faultlore.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (faultlore.com)
| gnabgib wrote:
| (2019) Popular in:
|
| 2023 (290 points, 119 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478892
|
| 2022 (399 points, 154 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330144
|
| 2019 (542 points, 170 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105625
| jesse__ wrote:
| The ligatures part of this article gets me every time I re-read
| it. I think reading this article may have been the first time I
| realized that even large, well-funded projects are still done by
| people who are just regular humans, and sometimes settle for
| something that's good enough.
| thot_experiment wrote:
| I've tried to ask this before in various contexts and I've never
| been able to find an answer but maybe commenters on a post like
| this would know.
|
| I like the way that the CJK fonts render without anti-aliasing on
| windows. I want to know why and how to cause windows to render a
| non-cjk font of my choosing in this aliased style. I am not
| opposed to hex-editing or otherwise modifying the font if that's
| necessary. I've never been able to find information bout the
| mechanism or how it's triggered.
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