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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 235 points 6 days ago (8 children)
[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 99 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damnit, I'm going to see this everywhere now, aren't I?

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Is kerning the spacing between letters?

Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago

Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 38 points 6 days ago

I can't wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

Oh wow, thats very interesting!

[–] bmpvy@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

i will never see butterfly depictions the same again

[–] Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 7 points 6 days ago

Didn't see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago... Thanks for the info

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.