skosch/Crimson
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The Crimson Text typeface
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2013-12-24 · latest 2020-07-09
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…fonts. Even when repeatedly asked to by the original font’s author. Take as an example Crimson from https://github.com/skosch/Crimson : Google took Crimson Text in 2010 and put it onto Google Fonts, but mangled it in the process , messing…
comment by chrismorgan · 2020-07-09 · in Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts -
…to offer the clumsy-looking original and has not heeded the repeated pleas for an upgrade." [1] https://github.com/skosch/Crimson
comment by pavlov · 2016-09-07 · in How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users -
…for example, is an outdated version of the font, which it breaks a little further too. Upstream ( https://github.com/skosch/Crimson ) has seen substantial improvements, but Google has never updated it, ignoring the author’s pleas.
comment by chrismorgan · 2016-06-14 · in Google Fonts Redesigned