CSS Transparency and Overlapping Glyphs

Example of overlapping glyphs using CSS rgba()
Example of overlapping glyphs using CSS rgba()

rgba() is a supremely useful CSS value. But I noticed, while working on the footer of this site down below, that operating systems render typography using this value in interesting ways.

Trying this out again…

Me, with a hat and sunglasses.
Me, with a hat and sunglasses.

I’m going to give blogging a shot again. I used to do this quite a bit, but that was about seven years ago. I lost my appetite for it not long after that, out of some combination of laziness and general lack of writing ability. I’m thinking by now I’ve gotten over the lazy bit.