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Helvetica Fractions

For a while now I have been faced with an unusual, yet visually interesting, font substitution issue with my web browsers.  It seems like every time a webpage requests any face from the Helvetica family, Safari et.al decides that the most suitable one would be the fractions.

a small fraction of the Coda Site

a small fraction of the Coda Site

and how Panic intended it to look

and how Panic intended it to look

I have tried a couple of things to fix this but have always focused on the browsers themselves, looking in vain for some way to tell them NOT TO USE THE FRACTIONS FONTFACE.  Eventually I gave up and, reasoning that I have needed to use the face only once in the p`st six months, I disabled it in FontBook.

demon be gone

demon be gone

I cant tell if this issue resulted in me installing some fonts in a bad way or if it is an error more people are likely to see, so far none of the other macs at work have suffered so I am hoping the risk is negligable enough for me to continue using Helvetica on any sites that need it.

Kubrick Season on More4

Loving the More4 Kubrick season trailer thats on at the moment.  A season of his films is to be shown between the 15th and 25th of July.

The trailer is a single shot recreation of the set from The Shining, quite lovely.

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little bit of bio

meh ...