← Back to context Comment by isoprophlex 4 days ago Hmm, I thought it wafnt fo bad, myfelf 11 comments isoprophlex Reply bryanrasmussen 4 days ago oh my god, you're right, they just used an f, no wonder I found it so bad! That is really annoying. Enraging even. rhdunn 4 days ago The text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`. poly2it 4 days ago Probably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S. KPGv2 4 days ago This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it withdocument.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable. 1 reply → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago hmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought bryanrasmussen 4 days ago I should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast. zamadatix 4 days ago It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB 2 replies → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.
bryanrasmussen 4 days ago oh my god, you're right, they just used an f, no wonder I found it so bad! That is really annoying. Enraging even. rhdunn 4 days ago The text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`. poly2it 4 days ago Probably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S. KPGv2 4 days ago This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it withdocument.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable. 1 reply → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago hmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought bryanrasmussen 4 days ago I should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast. zamadatix 4 days ago It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB 2 replies → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.
rhdunn 4 days ago The text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`. poly2it 4 days ago Probably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S. KPGv2 4 days ago This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it withdocument.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable. 1 reply → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago hmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought
KPGv2 4 days ago This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it withdocument.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable. 1 reply →
bryanrasmussen 4 days ago I should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast. zamadatix 4 days ago It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB 2 replies → bryanrasmussen 4 days ago yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.
zamadatix 4 days ago It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB 2 replies →
bryanrasmussen 4 days ago yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.
oh my god, you're right, they just used an f, no wonder I found it so bad! That is really annoying. Enraging even.
The text doesn't use an `f`. If you copy from e.g. the 1700 passage you get `ſ` not `f`.
Probably people are confused by ligatures. Indeed it is a long S.
This is correct. And if you don't like that font's long-s, you can fix it with
document.body.style.fontFamily = "Baskerville";
Baskerville has a nice long-s. TNR is also not bad. Garamond is passable.
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hmm you're right, I guess my eyesight is worse than I thought
I should have noticed, it has a full cross bar, I guess it's my fading eyesight and also the white text of green is perhaps not the best contrast.
It doesn't have such a bar in the article e.g. "swifter" https://imgur.com/a/XwsoVgB
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yeah I was wrong, I happened to look back at Maiſter and my bad eyesight and the resolution made it look like the long s had a crossbar from the t next to it in the default font.