What is that weird trend of filling in spaces in letters making them slightly less legible?

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― Philip Nunez, Friday, 23 October 2015 05:01 (ten years ago)

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 23 October 2015 05:02 (ten years ago)

Airline peanuts!

― Underground Rick (albvivertine), Friday, 23 October 2015 06:58 (ten years ago)

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:42 (ten years ago)

Bored schoolkids?

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Friday, 23 October 2015 18:56 (ten years ago)

this is from Andy Burnham's 2010 campaign to be elected leader of the UK Labour party (he lost)

― soref, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)

― i know when that chandler bing (Jordan), Friday, 23 October 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

andy burnham's DJ set was fantastic but reconnecting labour was a terrible opener imo

― nomar, Friday, 23 October 2015 19:22 (ten years ago)

longest poll evah

― Lee626, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:46 (ten years ago)

who the hell is going to stay on ilx 13 years to get the answer

― bnw, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:48 (ten years ago)

System will have become sentient by then and long since stopped reporting poll results.

― jmm, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:57 (ten years ago)

think it started with that worn typewriter font

― Lee626, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:29 (ten years ago)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)

this is not recent, and I'd be surprised if there isn't a name for this particular font-style

― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 27 February 2016 01:01 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:13 (nine years ago)

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