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> There are four dimensions and a few other flags that the font can be adjusted by in CSS: natural-width to fixed-width, Linear to "Casual", Font weight, Font slant, and cursive variants.

And yet no way to decrease the x-height. I'm sick of fonts where the lowercase is tall and the uppercase/ascenders are short.

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I've seen the same trend in other recent fonts designed for programming, like JetBrains Mono, with the idea that "more height" on lowercase letters improves legibility at small font sizes. I'm in agreement with your distaste, mostly because I work on high-DPI displays where legibility is not necessarily an issue and fonts that do this look like a "blob" of text.

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