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FULL BLOCK is slightly shorter than LOWER SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK for me. They would be the same height except LOWER SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK has some antialiasing that extends a tiny bit higher while FULL BLOCK is a solid edge.

Also none of them drop below the baseline in the main page text, only in the code block.

(Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04)



(Safari 17 on MacOS 14) FULL BLOCK is the largest to me, but also dips below the line by about as much as it is above LOWER SEVEN EIGTHS BLOCK.

And unlike the author, LOWER HALF BLOCK (U+2584) does not dip below the line.

Aah, multi-platform font rendering... ;)


Digital typefaces are fun! Because whether they render sensibly is 100% a font issue.




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