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For reasons I find difficult to understand, the text is between <pre> tags and uses a monospace font (Inconsolata). It is curious that a project that cites Matthew Butterick as a contributor should make such poor decisions about typography, especially when the rest of the documentation is above average in that area.

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It's wrapped in <pre> tags because it is preformatted text of the type that would be used in email, etc., announcements (probably becauae it's the exact text from those media, without transformation), so not using <pre> would lose significant formatting.

Of course, the formatting is broken anyway, because two of the continuation lines of bullet-pointed lines are underindented by one space.

Making the font bold is what makes it look so bad in Firefox. In combination with the font.

Matthew is a contributor, doesn't mean he is the Jony Ive of every single web page they publish.

No, but he is the “Jony Ive” of the website on which that announcement is published.

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