Hacker News Reader

"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted."

And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please?

Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)

View on HN

It looks like they are using the Song typeface for simplified Chinese (宋体). Maybe they are using this to get square symbols instead of the usual rectangles of monospace.

They could have used monospace with letter-spacing to make it square.

Try "letter-spacing: 0.1em;" to get an idea of the difference.

The site is using a japanese(?) font which you probably don't have and it's falling back to a serif font. If you inspect element and change it to monospace it all works fine.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com