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imurray on June 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3D Printed Bikini

I do this, but warn that it sometimes leads to sites breaking: text spilling out of boxes or getting obscured by running under other elements.

Web-designers: please make your sites robust to people picking their own fonts, and also robust to users enforcing a minimum font size!

Stormbringer on June 7, 2011 [–]

This is exactly why anyone that says they are a web designer - yet does all their work in some 'pixel perfect' tool like Macromedia (or whatever the 'cool kids' use these days) is just deluding themselves.

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