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justaj on Nov 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cover Your Tracks

Wait, isn't font rendering client-side? Why would the server have to know how fonts are rendered on my end?

matsemann on Nov 21, 2020 [–]

They render it to a canvas, webgl or similar, and read the pixel data using javascript.

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