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Flipping Typical

Detecting what fonts you have installed via JavaScript and CSS running in your web browser: this clever hack is anything but flipping typical. I wonder when someone will start trying to use similar tricks to detect type piracy.

This entry was posted in blurb and tagged CSS, hacking, JavaScript, typography, web programming on 27th April 2009 by admin.

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