{"id":312,"date":"2009-10-28T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:51:53","slug":"fonts-matter-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/fonts-matter-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonts matter people!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d try Chrome out since it has cool themes and I like that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I considered switching for simple browsing until I went to the news.google.co.jp. Compare the font to Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chrome<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chrome.png\" alt=\"Chrome Font\" title=\"Chrome Font\" width=\"438\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chrome.png 438w, https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chrome-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>FireFox<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/firefox.png\" alt=\"Firefox font\" title=\"Firefox font\" width=\"409\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/firefox.png 409w, https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/firefox-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The font just looks really, really bad. There are jagged edges everywhere and I don&#8217;t recall \u300c\u54e1\u300d having two diagonal lines like <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/in.png\" alt=\"in\" title=\"in\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317\" \/>. It&#8217;s just downright painful to read. But by far, this takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/zetsu.png\" alt=\"Zetsu\" title=\"Zetsu\" width=\"51\" height=\"54\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you freaking kidding me?  This is <i>version 3<\/i> and it doesn&#8217;t even display the right freaking <i>language<\/i>?!<\/p>\n<p>This was on all my Windows XP machines including a Japanese version of Windows XP. <\/p>\n<p>Link to original article: http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/national\/news\/20091029-OYT1T00108.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d try Chrome out since it has cool themes and I like that kind of stuff. I considered switching for simple browsing until I went to the news.google.co.jp. Compare the font to Firefox. Chrome FireFox The font just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/fonts-matter-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}