Small update on this, I tested it out a little bit more (in Chrome on Windows 10) and it’s definitely an issue that’s more pronounced on Windows specifically… and if you change the width of your browser window sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t really see it on my screen in OSX.
Seems like that would have something to do with subpixel rendering… I think the only way to solve that would be to add a small amount of padding to the left side of .cooked or remove the overflow: hidden (it’s there to protect content like images in deeply nested lists from overflowing the post container, but we might be able to apply it only to the nested containers?)
This issue is a little different. When a font is italicized, it overflows outside of its reserved space (and also its parent div) - so it’s getting cut off by our same overflow: hidden rule.