Enormous-text embroidery tips website disappears in update

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It pretty well captures the growing anxiety of taking up a new hobby and slowly having revealed to you the sheer volume, depth, weight and obscurity of the previous unknown unknowns hidden therein.

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Wow. To me, it feels less like shouting and more like someone getting right up in your face.

In Your Face Hello GIF

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THIS is why I got a 4k monitor for my desktop.

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We’ve all been there…

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zoom out and you can get the Star Wars scroll effect

or maybe you just want to fix it with some CSS
h3 {font-size: 1rem !important;}

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A long, long time ago, in a cookie tin far, far away…

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I had no idea that the helvetica period is just a square.

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Pug - nacious!

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It’s not Helvetica, it’s Arial, the typeface with a sloping top on just one character for no good reason, among other failings.

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This has me giggling uncontrollably - haven’t seen it before!

The final line on the weirdest opticians chart ever has this:

Followed way down at the bottom with:

Clearly no-one ever did…

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Golden State Warriors Lol GIF by NBA

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A web page with malformed HTML is… OK I guess… but when I saw the headline I assumed it was about an instructional page with giant text so you could follow along without being sat right in front of your device. Which would be a good idea (at least if you could scroll the text with a voice command or gesture).

I had no idea about the history of the site. I checked the site in the beginning of September because I was looking for supplies and it looked totally normal then. So the change isn’t too recent.

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