Long Time Lurker Checking In

faebiou · June 2025

Hey Drawer-dwellers,

I’ve been checking this forum for about a decade now, so it’s about time I made it official.

My name is Fabio Pop, I do stuff like these, and I’m always down to talk about type or whatever – so let me know if you’d like to have coffee or something.

Cheers!

Thomas Phinney · June 2025

Have coffee? Urm... where are you based?

faebiou · June 2025

The Hague but Zoom is our friend

Michael Rafailyk · June 2025

Hello Fabio, it's nice to meet you!

I would like to give a little advice regarding the CSS on your website. It would be a good idea to remove the fake boldness from HTML elements (like <a> <b> <h1> <h2>) that the browser considers bold. This over-darken effect is currently visible on all links (<a>). You can add the following rule to your CSS to fix this.

a {
	font-synthesis: none;
}

Now:

After removing fake boldness:

faebiou · July 2025

Hey Michael,

I couldn’t figure out why my bolds looked so weird (& thought I’d used an old version of my fonts that used uncorrected extrapolations or something), but this was it!

Thank you for pointing it out, I’ll change it ASAP.

Cheers!

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