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Today’s lesson in unfortunate font use comes courtesy of Portugal’s Federação Académica do Desporto Universitário. (yiff.life)

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I was expecting fuckery regarding diacritics*, but this is way worse.

*such as writing ⟨Ç⟩ with the bottom of the cedilla on the same level as the letters, instead of below them. Or an extra-short ⟨Ã⟩ to give the tilde some room. Both look disgusting.