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Fonts
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Fonts, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Words matching JS keywords inside HTML paragraph tags are always highlighted, making it unusable2024-08-15
- Fonts lack accented characters, forcing a similar-looking substitute font2023-11-05
- Font size widgets are poorly located, too small, or low contrast, so users can't use them2022-02-19
- Results shift between pages, so previously viewed fonts reappear and users doubt their browsing history2021-01-03
- Installing the font on macOS is horrible and produces errors2017-09-15
- Commenter says installing fonts on OSX is horrible, though the quoted steps are simple2017-09-15
- Font changes need several clicks, with no feedback showing that clicking advances.2012-02-13