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Eric Portis
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Web developer; used-to-be-a-printmaker; Let’s Share What We Know
Path-like models? Bath-like models!
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh it is weird that they are all the same! Maybe this is a bug, and it's falling back to some other font's ss02 variant if the current font doesn't have one?

I think fontgoggles.org will let you see all of the alts if you can get your hands on the actual font files... but it's a mac app...
FontGoggles — Interactive Previewing and Comparing
fontgoggles.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Are you sure it's not present in the font? My first guess would be that the Helvetica OTF here actually does have a "stylistic set 2" defined, which provides these alternate glyphs (which are, as you note, not at all appropriate for body text) helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/...
helpx.adobe.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
MFW the img is :borken
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wife (vegetarian) went to this Mosswood Meltdown; just read this post aloud to her; “I remember that gyro. There was a long-ass line for it too.”
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
welcome to: the cortex vortex
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
would you say that hocus pocus is bette midler's corpus opus?
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0
www.w3.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I've automated it so my entire day feels like turning cranks on unlabelled, spring-loaded jack-in-the boxes which sometimes punch me in the face
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As long as we're ceding little disconnected nubs (“pene-exclaves”!) to Canada: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_R...
Point Roberts, Washington - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM