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The pretty text underline (https://atomiks.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/#pretty-text-und...) looks pretty awful on Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit).

I like this!

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The pretty text underline came out really bad on Win10 + Firefox 58.0.2, as well.

Looks good using Firefox on Ubuntu, until you select the text: https://screenshots.firefox.com/YM46qCrVR3IA0Qar/atomiks.git...

Doesn't look good on firefox 58 on osx, https://imgur.com/ouLKS58

It looks like there's a distance value that could be increased, since the underline is breaking along the baseline.

Frankly, it's hideous. I don't know why the adjective "pretty" is used here, it looks much worse than normal underlining.

I think they just implemented it badly. I have seen a similar thing in Typography.js [1] recently and probably because of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, I saw it multiple times afterwards and just assumed that was now the default way to render underline.

Try the Doelger theme at Typography.js, it looks pretty good actually.

[1] https://kyleamathews.github.io/typography.js/

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