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Typography is so difficult on the web due to lack of support for things CSS textbox-trim https://github.com/jantimon/text-box-trim-examples You can see that even on this website, if you click "Debug Mode" (top right) and notice that later in the page, the headings and body copy begin to drift out of vertical alignment (against the background grid).
Wow something Safari has already built and others haven’t.
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GameFAQ was enough! FOUND IT! Thank you! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
this gets discussed, or at least mentioned, often on hn, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093 (this very faq) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773880 (jart's commit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605970 (tom7's gnujpl) and bonus: recently i've been enjoying http://arlyle.sdf.org/ (unfortunately, links do not work in preformatted text on hn)
Don't worry; I pasted your words
into vi just to experience their
fully justified bricktext glory.
Monospace doesn't bother me. Is the hard line endings that bother me. Someone with their "retro" web site that, essentially, uses pre tags. You get a wall of text, in a small font on the phone, reader view doesn't work, and if you tilt is sideways, you're as likely to get scrollbars as not. Nowadays this is also my singular complaint with tech mailing lists. The hard line endings and rigid layout.
what's the thing with scroll bars? (curious)
Alright, before I continue my comment. I love the look and overall feel of the website. From an aesthetics point of view, I think it looks awesome. However... this sentence > Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Made me go ... Ugh... Yes, I very much think so. To be fair, they do a fairly good job with the monospaced font they are using on this website, which is fairly legible. They also see…
Alright, before I continue my comment. I love the look and overall feel of the website. From an aesthetics point of view, I think it looks awesome. However... this sentence > Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Made me go ... Ugh... Yes, I very much think so. To be fair, they do a fairly good job with the monospaced font they are using on this website, which is fairly legible. They also see…
OTOH, I spend way more time per week reading typewritten mss (some with handwritten greek) that have something to say, than I do reading typographically best-practiced word salads...
Not sure what you mean by that.
Also, just because you spend a lot of time reading information formatted with monospaced fonts doesn't mean they are the best way for you to receive that information.
The presentation page dearly needs colour. Even if you emulate terminal feeling, you need to use colour.
It looks nice, and I'm glad that it's semantic and responsive, but the fundamental problem is that monospace just isn't great for body text. I've read blog posts on multiple sites with monospaced body text, it's okay, but proportional really is the way to go in my opinion.
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OTOH, I spend way more time per week reading typewritten mss (some with handwritten greek) that have something to say, than I do reading typographically best-practiced word salads...
> typewritten mss (some with handwritten greek) Not sure what you mean by that. Also, just because you spend a lot of time reading information formatted with monospaced fonts doesn't mean they are the best way for you to receive that information.
If you have something to say, I have nothing against improving its typography.
If not, I'd argue for concentrating on spending effort finding, not a better typography, but better words.
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> Not sure what you mean by that.
Older research papers were often written with typewriters, leaving blank spots on the page for formulae, which were then (to a greater or lesser degree) put in in a second pass, with methods ranging from straight freehand to using drafting tools for lettering them.
eg (1951) https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand... p13