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So this has been a thing for some time, at least I noticed it somewhere around the new year. All of your lower case 'I'* characters in articles are somehow replaced with an 'l'. This doesn't usually carry over to the comments section or page titles on the browser tab, but I see it's an issue in the forums as well, because look at this entire post. So, what's the deal? Site-wide text compression algorithm that works better with two letters of the alphabet being the same? Does someone working on the site's code find typographical larceny tittling**? Is this a very long and drawn out 'no "i" in "wii"' joke? My curiosity and interest is piqued and I simply must know! Browsers tested: Chrome, IE *The letter after 'H', if you need a hint **(Yes,I had to Google it. The dot on a lower case I is called a 'tittle'. The more you know!) Edited by Sulphur at 16:59:58 23-01-2018 Edited by Sulphur at 17:01:30 23-01-2018 |
All your i's are belong to us
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Your post is full of lower case letter 'i's from where I'm looking. -
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Your-Mother 8,172 posts
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Registered 5 years agoCan quite clearly see i in articles and forum posts. I'm guessing it's your own cleartype config doing it.
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Registered 15 years agoWell, whatever it is, I've seen it happen across 3 PCs. Maybe it's a setting somewhere, but I doubt Cleartype has anything to do with it. Here's an image: https://imgur.com/a/81sf8
It's pretty weird.
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Something's wrong with your font (display), clearly the i's aren't "replaced with l's", as they're shorter than the actual l's. Just look at "tittling" in your example.
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Font-size+AA issue -
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CrispyXUKTurbo wrote:
Winner.
Font-size+AA issue
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Registered 15 years agoCrispyXUKTurbo wrote:
Font-size+AA issueDrStrangelove wrote:
Eagle-eyed. Can confirm this is the issue. I zoomed in the page and the i's resolved at higher point size. Funny thing is, setting it back to 100% after zooming in resolves the issue on the page in question. There's some funky stuff going on with how Windows is resolving the site's font.
Something's wrong with your font (display), clearly the i's aren't "replaced with l's", as they're shorter than the actual l's. Just look at "tittling" in your example.
Kudos also to, um, your-mother? -
FWIW, it took me quite a while to get used to how Windows 10 (and 8, to some extent) renders fonts, vs 7. Found 7 a lot clearer and less fuzzy tbh. Used to it now, mind. -
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Registered 13 years agoDesktop scaling issue? -
Try setting a different default font. Something seems not right with it.
This matter interested me too, so I took a closer look at that screenshot, and what I found curious was that your text seems to be coloured while mine's greyscale. I'm no expert on this, so I don't know why that is.
Yours:
Mine:
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Registered 19 years agoWindows or OSX? That isn't windows default font smoothing.
Are you using something like GDIPP or Mactype?
Or worse, linux.
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Registered 20 years agoDrStrangelove wrote:
I assume you're referring to the sub-pixel rendering shizzle. It's in your font config somewhere.
what I found curious was that your text seems to be coloured while mine's greyscale. I'm no expert on this, so I don't know why that is.
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Registered 19 years agoYour-Mother wrote:
You can run IE 11 on a mac.
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Registered 19 years agomal wrote:
That isn't windows font rendering. RGB subpixel rendering is freetype, windows is greyscale. You can get things to use that rendering, but it's far from default.
DrStrangelove wrote:
I assume you're referring to the sub-pixel rendering shizzle. It's in your font config somewhere.
what I found curious was that your text seems to be coloured while mine's greyscale. I'm no expert on this, so I don't know why that is.
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Registered 16 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Not even Bill Gates’s dad would do that
Your-Mother wrote:
You can run IE 11 on a mac.
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Registered 19 years agoWebdevs do it for testing. -
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Registered 16 years agoDo I? I spin up a Windows VM. -
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Registered 5 years agoDirtbox wrote:
The clue may also be where he said Windows.
Your-Mother wrote:
You can run IE 11 on a mac.
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