# Faded Capital 'W' **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 27, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faded-capital-w/735901 "2015-10-27T20:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faded-capital-w/735901/8 "2015-10-27T22:08:15Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > We had exactly this conversation a couple years ago or so. > > Hang tight, I’ll see if I can dredge up a link . . . [Here it is, from November 2013.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708254) From that thread, we have: > [@'W' and 'V' Look Faded On My Computer Screen.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-and-v-look-faded-on-my-computer-screen/674326/11): > > Well, I for one welcome our new font overlords who have verily provided us with this new multi-intensity-valued way to show the various letters of the alphabet. It appears that my browser wants to display the letter Y as well as W and V in this variant style. > [@'W' and 'V' Look Faded On My Computer Screen.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/w-and-v-look-faded-on-my-computer-screen/674326/12): > > S[COLOR=Gray][COLOR=LightBlue]mar[/COLOR]t ass.[/COLOR] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faded-capital-w/735901)._