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Text rendering hates you (2019)
Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2023 | Text rendering hates you (2019) by subset | 290 | 119 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Text rendering hates you (2019) by andsoitis | 193 | 80 |
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Linked from 21 Hacker News comments by 20 different people, from Dec 2022 to Feb 2026.
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- danhau · Feb 14, 2026
- socalgal2 · Feb 14, 2026
- HackerThemAll · Nov 11, 2025
- klaussilveira · Sep 24, 2025
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- groby_b · Feb 14, 2025
