TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
A weird almost unreadable font file bundled with TeamViewer for Windows software lets website detect if you’ve installed the software. Raises privacy concerns.
Fonts
Improve legibility and reduce layout shifts with x-height adjustments
The font-size CSS property sets the majuscule (“uppercase”) text size. The (font-)size-adjust property can set the minuscule (“lowercase”) size independently.
Windows adds two new monospace system fonts
Microsoft to include Windows Terminal by default in Windows 10 and 11. The Terminal app bundles new Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono fonts as new system fonts.
The perfect cross-platform serif and sans-serif font stacks
How the default web browser fonts vary, why they are what they are, and how to make your webdesign look the same on different operating systems.
New font with Unicode-compatible Creative Commons license symbols
Unicode 13 introduced Creative Commons license symbols. Here’s a small free font file with the new characters, so you can use them on your computer or website.
Text rendering doesn’t look too good on VA-QLED display panels
“Quantum pixels” works by turning off half of the pixel. This can badly affect text-rendering on VA-QLED displays like the one in the Samsung C24FG70.
Redesigned with larger fonts and shorter line lengths
I’ve taken steps to increase the blog’s readability and had to seriously bump-up the font size. Responding to critiques.
Fluxfonts 2.0 for Windows 10
Fluxfonts — the open-source anti-font-fingerprinting program — is now available on Windows. Helps prevent your device from being fingerprinted by trackers.
Fluxfonts – font fingerprint cloaking
Protect against device fingerprinting using installed fonts by automatically cycling through a set of randomly installed fonts.