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commit 7b56e84e53f50611726927b02a6468776ab318c5
parent 6df3183859c6e0b860892253d37ada156063e6d9
Author: I Mean I'm Just Saying <imeanimjustsaying@kiwifarms.st>
Date:   Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:11:54 -0400

common: the geometricPrecision comment says why Plex hints on Linux (gasp grid-fitting, no TrueType instructions) and why the scope starts at 1.5x (brand S3)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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common/styles/tokens.css
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1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/styles/tokens.css b/common/styles/tokens.css
@@ -125,19 +125,19 @@
   font-stretch: 112%;
 }
 
-/* Fractional glyph advances. IBM Plex Sans ships TrueType hinting, and
-   Chromium on Linux (FreeType) applies it at a device pixel ratio of 2 and
-   up, rounding each advance to a whole CSS pixel: at 14px the `g` of "Light"
-   or "Signal" measured 9px against its 7.41px design width, which read as
-   "Lig ht" and "Sig nal". geometricPrecision turns hinting off and lays text
-   out at the design widths. It changes nothing where text is not hinted
-   (macOS, iOS, Android's subpixel layout). Form controls are named too: the
-   UA sheet resets their text-rendering to auto, so a button's "Results" would
-   still read "Res ults".
-   Scoped to 1.5dppx and up, where the gaps are. Below it the advances are
-   still whole pixels, but the hinted glyph fills them: "Signal" reads clean at
-   1x and 1.25x and splits from 1.5x (150 % and 175 % desktop scaling too), so
-   1x Linux and Windows screens keep the hinting that makes 11–14px text crisp. */
+/* Fractional glyph advances. IBM Plex Sans, as Google Fonts serves it, has no
+   TrueType instructions but a `gasp` table that asks for grid-fitting at every
+   size, so FreeType hints it on Linux and Chromium rounds each advance to a
+   whole CSS pixel: at 14px the `g` of "Light" or "Signal" is 9px against its
+   7.41px design width, at every device pixel ratio. At 1x and 1.25x the hinted
+   glyph fills that advance; from 1.5x up (150 % and 175 % desktop scaling
+   too) it is drawn finer than it is spaced, and the words read "Lig ht" and
+   "Sig nal". geometricPrecision turns hinting off and lays text out at the
+   design widths, so it is scoped to 1.5dppx and up, and 1x screens keep the
+   hinting that makes 11–14px text crisp. It changes nothing where text is not
+   hinted (macOS, iOS, Android's subpixel layout). Form controls are named
+   too: the UA sheet resets their text-rendering to auto, so a button's
+   "Results" would still read "Res ults". */
 @media (min-resolution: 1.5dppx) {
   html,
   button,