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sings on May 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: System Font Stack

You may be able to override metrics of different fonts with CSS, using ascent-override and descent-override and the local() function to target a font on the system.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...

I think the other advice here is a little extreme. There is no reason not to try to normalise the appearance for all users.

bufferoverflow on May 28, 2022 [–]

ascent-override / descent-override isn't supported by Safari. Which is half of my problem.

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