Today I Learned that letters with round tops (Q, O, S, etc.) are drawn a smidgeon higher than letters with flat tops (E,T,F, etc.). This 'overshoot' makes them appear equal to our perception
FQOT
That title doesn't seem true. I zoomed in on the text above and took a screenshot, then zoomed in even more on that screenshot and edited in some marker lines:
Maybe some fonts do that, but not the default one used on Lemmy. Nor, I suspect, most common web sans serif fonts.
The smaller the font the less noticable, especially with pixelation. But look at the top red line you drew, the F & T are grey pixels and the Q & O are white in the center.
The anti-aliasing there indicates the O and Q are the full pixel in height and the F, T are a half pixel in height.
This is known as optical alignment. It’s very common in font design.
That's neat. And pointy letters even moreso.
My main takeaway from that article is that Nautico Crepusculo would be a good album title.
Typography, and design as a whole are such enjoyable things to experience. Even sometimes, when being sold to. But on the whole, I have found I would rather a frightful design and more freedom (and less data snatching), than being up-sold some "fancy" looking thing that's some Bauhaus trash.
That was some sloppy I should be asleep trash. This is an interesting article though, I especially like the part where they show how weight can affect the design of individual characters.