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kristianpabout 2 hours ago
Headings like the following:

    4. Keep the measure honest
    The knobs that matter
Very AI, and irritating.
muglugabout 2 hours ago
Counterpoint: stretching fonts is commonly regarded as a typographic sin, and a condensed form of Georgia exists: https://carterandcone.com/font/georgia/
jihadjihad21 minutes ago
OT, but something I didn’t know is that if you go to Google, and type in “$FOO font”, it will render the entire results page in that font.

Of course I had to try Comic Sans, then Georgia, and I was only a little disappointed when it didn’t work for Wingdings.

montag30 minutes ago
I was on board until “fake a medium weight”… faux bold is one of my pet peeves. How hard would it be to turn Georgia into a true variable axis font?
Lammyabout 2 hours ago
> Georgia is a timeless typeface that comes free on almost every computer.

Just not Windows 3.1–98/NT, Classic Mac OS, or Free Software operating systems whose users have not installed the relevant package and accepted its license :)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990421072704/http://www.micros...

https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/webfonts/

Gualdrapoabout 1 hour ago
I never liked it that much. Yes, it came with WinXP and used it in my physics reports when I had no idea about LaTeX trying to emulate the Computer Modern look of them, but when I learned some LaTeX found out you could use a font that became one my favorite serif fonts ever, Cambria. I still use it from time to time with ConTeXt.