This whole "manual" is like this. No idea how they managed to screw up so bad
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Kerning is the typographic term for the spacing between letters or characters in a piece of text to be printed.
Keming is what it looks like when you fuck up the kerning.
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Quite easy. Produce a PDF with non-standard fonts, but don't embed them. Whoever opens it without those fonts installed will see glyphs from an installed default font, positioned where the glyphs of the original font would have been.
Electroboom recently published a video on the snakeoil of grounding products like these.
I'm barefoot most of the time and my posture is terrible. Grounding is snake oil, confirmed.
Can you link it? I tried looking for it but I can't find the video.
I have one of them myself, but that's for assembling PCs
Oh.. ooooh. That grounding. I was thinking about "no Jimmy, you stay in your room with no phone or console for the next two weeks."
I've seen this font many times on Chinese products, often with this horrible kerning. I think it's a font designed for Chinese characters that does include Latin characters as well, but with them misaligned (e.g. the r has whitespace on the left and not on the right). I think this is a bad font rather than a bad kerning job done on top of it.
Just pointing out that a product that claims it can cure everything usually can cure nothing at all. That's a crazy long list of benefits, first clue it's snake oil.