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Script Style

minifonts The mini fonts on this site are designed especially for the screen. Like terrazzo tiles in a mosaic, they are designed on a strict grid - exactly the same grid as the pixels on your computer screen. Each 'tile' has to be a certain fixed size and must butt-up to its neighbor exactly. This means that you can't scale them, they have to be used at their designed sizes, or exact multiples. It also means that you have to work in pixels and not in traditional points. March to Your Own Standard By invalidating my entire site with this one line of code, I ensure that I am made aware the instant it matters. The instant this stuff starts to break anything in the real world, I will know. If I only had a few small errors on a few random pages around my site, I could easily miss the day when "the big switchover" happens and wind up with broken pages I don't know about. And since this code is in the form of a server-side include, I can