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Does this font simply ... Not look good to anyone else? It is visually kind of uncomfortable to behold. Maybe it's because it's a bit blurry feeling.

It sort of suggests to me that there's a lot going on with typeface design that we take for granted.

Edit: on closer inspection, the letter forms are kind of all over the place. The humps on the 'm' are lopsided, letter heights are sort of random. I think it's an interesting idea but to make it a more useful font would take a lot of manual fine tuning.



It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rendered https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Averia+Libre


Wow, that looks completely different than how Safari rendered the site. Thanks for the link. I like the look of it hosted at Google.


Aaahhh, thank you.

It still looks a little funky but way more readable.


Try the GWF Serif variant. It has more satisfying symmetry. Other than 4.


This actually is a charming font. With the random letter form sizing fixed, it reminds me of scans of old print publications. Thank you.




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