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484 points OuterVale | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 08:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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iamwil ◴[08 Dec 25 14:43 UTC] No.46192761[source]▶
It's so weird to me there's lots of people saying the page is hard to read. Isn't this the same font on the original Apple Macintosh? I don't remember anyone ever saying that about the original Macs, back then or now.

I'm not saying that they're not experiencing it. I'm just not sure what the diff is between then and now. We're used to higher resolution screens and spline-based fonts, so reading pixel fonts is jarring?

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1. bananaflag ◴[08 Dec 25 15:19 UTC] No.46193215[source]▶
The titles are in the Mac font (Chicago if I'm not mistaken).

And the bulk of the text are in MS Sans Serif, the bitmap version, not the true type one, which indeed makes it jarring on high-res screens (and wasn't so in its age).

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2. account42 ◴[08 Dec 25 16:07 UTC] No.46193948[source]▶
The font rendering is worse than the font here. At least for me it looks like a very blurred version of the original bitmap font.