Font Falsehoods. A list of wrong assumptions programmers make about how fonts work.

github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods

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Updates

January 2018
  • Merge pull request #10 from bgrainger/add-widths
  • Add a falsehood about measuring text.
  • Use unnumbered list to avoid rules being hardcoded to a number, add s…
September 2017
  • Add more suggestions!
  • Added more suggestions
  • Add more suggestions, elaborate on why there's no explanations
  • Merge pull request #3 from Qix-/patch-1
  • typo: in -> is
  • Add some more suggestions, note about upcoming explanations
  • Add suggestions + corrections from Indra
  • Added Letteror's suggestions
  • Update README.md
  • Initial commit