Ask HN: I need data, lots of data

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I have a little pet project of mine that deals with technical matters of web fonts, and I am currently in need of a large sample set to understand what types of font anti-aliasing are used by which platform/browser combinations. Detailed description is here -

http://swapped.cc/font-smoothing

The page includes small JavaScript that detects the font anti-aliasing type and posts the result back to my site. So far I have gathered about 6000 samples, but these came from my own traffic.

I am in need of a diversity, so please click that link and let my script test your rasterizer :)

For an extra karma bonus, if you are up to helping quirky, but otherwise wonderful people of typographic community, do consider embedding a test script in your own sites. Just for a short run, a week or two.

Thanks a bunch.

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