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Today I Learned that letters with round tops (Q, O, S, etc.) are drawn a smidgeon higher than letters with flat tops (E,T,F, etc.). This 'overshoot' makes them appear equal to our perception (frerejones.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FQOT

That title doesn't seem true. I zoomed in on the text above and took a screenshot, then zoomed in even more on that screenshot and edited in some marker lines:

Maybe some fonts do that, but not the default one used on Lemmy. Nor, I suspect, most common web sans serif fonts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The anti-aliasing there indicates the O and Q are the full pixel in height and the F, T are a half pixel in height.

how it looks on my Android phone on Firefox

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