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There is something disturbingly wrong with how that font is rendering in Firefox 4. Completely unreadable.

Preferences → Content → Fonts & Colors → Advanced → Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above

Untick that box, set the Firefox defaults to something attractive like Droid Sans, and rejoice at how readable the Web becomes.

Third thing I do after a fresh FF install! While you're at it play with "Minimum font size" as well if small fonts have ever bothered you.

Turn off the stylesheet and it's readable again, and you don't have to change any persistent settings.

View → Page Style → No Style

Turning off the stylesheet on every page as I browse the web would be a hassle; much better to change a setting once and never have to worry about it again. About the only pages I've found that aren't improved by enforcing a sensible font-choice are pages designed to showcase CSS3 font embedding - and those are pretty rare.

I do wish browsers would have a per-host "allow custom fonts" setting, alongside the tradition per-host "allow images" and "allow cookies" settings. With the potential security implications of downloadable fonts, it seems only sensible - but nobody seems interested in implementing such a thing. :(

Turning off the settings persistently, and you don't have to turn off stylesheets ever again. And pages suddenly start respecting your preferences!

I regret that I have but one upvote to give - thank you for saving my Internet.

I do this, but warn that it sometimes leads to sites breaking: text spilling out of boxes or getting obscured by running under other elements.

Web-designers: please make your sites robust to people picking their own fonts, and also robust to users enforcing a minimum font size!

This is exactly why anyone that says they are a web designer - yet does all their work in some 'pixel perfect' tool like Macromedia (or whatever the 'cool kids' use these days) is just deluding themselves.

Not just Firefox. For a "design" company, they sure have no idea what pretty looks like!

This is pretty, it's just not functional.

The light grey on white is not helpful either.

if you have Chrome, install Google Font Previewer, choose Droid Sans

I started picking at my LCD when I read the word "D.Dress"

I thought the period between the D's was a speck of grime. >_>

Click the Reader button. One of the best features of Safari :)

Woman in bikini on HN / Comment only on the link's typography

This is not Reddit. Kindly keep comments of this sort to a minimum.

Because the bikini should be the showcase of that webpage, not the typography.

Must be for Mac. OS X makes all text bold.

Nope. It looks horrible in Safari. It actually looks better in IE9 since Windows traditionally employs much more aggressive anti-aliasing and hinting (something that’s smaller than one pixel or between pixels simply gets bumped up to one pixel and forced onto the pixel grid).

The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.

Looks fine on FF4/win7 here.

Raleway is such a thin typeface that it pretty much renders horribly as text on any browser. Bad choice for body text…

Please get rid of that Railway font. Its awful and impossible to read.

I cannot imagine the Internet without Readable ( http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ ). It's like Readability but not slow. Oh, and customizable!

Thank you! I've been looking for something else ever since Readbility switched to their newer, heavier, slower version.

You can still find the old version of Readability if you google around. For example, http://www.tobez.org/download/readability.html

It's a fashion website. Aesthetics (and brand) are usually prioritized over functionality.

I wish they had more closeups of the material. How does it fit together? Is it like chain mail, but made from plastic?

They have a very good description at: http://www.continuuminum.com/post/6255702581/n12-technical-d...

I was going to order one to give away just to see what it looks like, but damn, 250$ %( Is that all markup or is it really just that expensive to print these things?

It's just expensive... We wish it were cheaper, by this is about as cheap as 3D printing gets.

Love it. Anyone know how the material responds to sustained heat? I'm thinking 4 - 5 hours in 80 - 95 degree weather. Pretty standard in places like Miami, FL, Puerto Rico, etc..

Is it just me, or does the bikini seem to fit the model rather poorly?

How difficult would it be to adjust the model from a 3D scan of the person and therefore always have a perfect fit? For instance, using this kind of techno : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rhXC3TWZwg (disclaimer - I'm a cofounder of VLAM)

What a horrible photo. He's about 2 stops too hot.

I guess people like not being able to make anything out because the picture is overexposed?

I occasionally get to work with Natalia Allen of Design Futurist, and I know she's currently working on something similar to this in it's early stages.

Sammich not included [/fark] ...

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