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Ha, this website seems to trip up the WebKit layout code (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211679) and cause large spaces to appear randomly in the middle of paragraphs that go away when you select the text…

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We had noticed this early on indeed, but no idea what's going on. Thank you for reporting it — we didn't think of raising it against WebKit since we assumed they'd be Doing The Right Thing™.

It's not just your website, mind you. I've been seeing it for quite a while even on other website but I've just been too lazy to report it ;)

On Firefox the layout renders fine, but seems to anti-alias the font anyway, which I find funny.

They both seem to do some kind of anti-aliasing on a hidpi screen for me, and Firefox is actually slightly sharper here. The screenshot is nicely pixelated and somewhat easier to read, but the font itself on the page is a bit blurry.

Kerning seems to be very browser dependent as well, seems like Blink does better job there.

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