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		aw3c2 on April 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The "book" is dead I would not go that far but it definitely seems a poor choice as for me it has coloured edges, looks blurry and is a strain to read. I use a TFT screen, this font seems like it is not doing that specific feature I forgot the name of.

warp on April 30, 2011 [–]

subpixel rendering perhaps? (Microsoft calls it ClearType).

The font looks terrible on my linux machine, it looks fine on the macbook.

technomancy on May 1, 2011 | [–]

Looks great on Ubuntu here, possibly because of the higher-than-average DPI?

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