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Playing with Georgia

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Re: Playing with Georgia

#11
It is odd to see a blog post that cares so much about typography and yet uses a pair of hyphens in place of an em-dash.

Interesting idea though. The title examples feel a lot like Apple Garamond from the turn of the century, Think different etc.

Re: Playing with Georgia

#12
The proliferation of AI generate posts annoys me for two reasons:

1. It takes quite some entitlement to expect people to use of their own brain time for something you couldn't be bothered with

2. Even though SOTA LLM don't hallucinate as much anymore, they still produce low quality content:

  - Georgia's letters are already tall, that's literally what it was designed for. Stretching it taller fixes nothing and the stretch trick is broken anyway: the text gets bigger but the space it's given doesn't, so it spills onto whatever's underneath

  - a bunch of those "easy wins" do nothing at all, and one of them makes the text thinner right after the post tells you to make it thicker.

  - it never mentions Georgia's weird numbers. They dip below the line and never line up in a column. That's a big issue
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