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title: "Wow even I as a frontend noob understand the significance of this"
date: 2026-03-28
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Wow even I as a frontend noob understand the significance of this

Some distant memory from 15 years ago needing to measure the width/height of some text and finding out it’s not possible to do reliably in web

More beautiful typography for the web!

*Quotes a post by @_chenglou (https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*