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rjw  ·  2948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the Web became Unreadable

Oh god don't get me started. Another terrible thing about these thin fonts is that they are often woefully incomplete with regards to character sets. If your type looks beautiful but the letter รก is rendered in Arial then this ruins the effect. Unfortunately this means that unless the designers are able to exercise total control over which characters appear on the page, this is going to happen at some point.