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Heavybell ,
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Whenever I read something on the lines of X`s new Y, I think of Curt’s new hat.

Codilingus ,

That’s the photo where he took a selfie with the hat, in front of the billboard which is a photo of him with the new hat, Yea?

Heavybell ,
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That’s the one :)

Jegahan , (edited )

The article isn’t great as it fails to mention that Gnome is considering a variation of Inter and not the default and therefore the article uses the wrong font in the screenshot. It addresses some of the concerns people have mentioned, like the capital I and lower l being the same

voidnutcracker ,
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Please don’t hate me but I use Segoe UI

yak ,
@yak@feddit.it avatar

hates you

voidnutcracker ,
@voidnutcracker@feddit.de avatar

Oh… so I better not tell you that I also use windows folder icons because gnomes blue folders make no fucking sense

m4m4m4m4 ,

Cantarell has served us well, but we’ve been wondering if it would be more beneficial to default to a more modern and well-maintained typeface

Eh. I don’t feel Cantarell “dated” or “not modern”. I don’t even use GNOME anymore but I reckon Cantarell is actually a great font, it’s legible and has character. It’s almost like you can tell it’s about GNOME when you see Cantarell somewhere. If I were them I’d invest into giving it more weights (I’d really like it if it had a lighter version), variations and extending it. They have the power and resources to do so.

imho they’re trying to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist. Inter’s default is a poor choice, as some of you have already noted here.

velox_vulnus , (edited )

Isn’t Noto Sans just better, with lots of typography support for other languages? What’s the issue then?

thayer ,

I believe Noto is a much more robust typeface, with several more language options than Cantarell. Still, I do prefer Inter to both of those.

Rentlar ,

If the Gnome team don’t like this new Inter font, will they return to “Déjà Vu”?

gi1242 ,

honestly I don’t see why they put effort into making a new font. there are plenty of freely available ones that are good enough

Jumuta ,

inter already exists

unknowing8343 ,

Capital i is same as non-capital L… So a horrible font for me.

KryptonNerd ,

Yeah that’s really frustrating

GolfNovemberUniform , (edited )
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I guess they’re copying mainstream OSes (at least Android) with this one

walthervonstolzing ,
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IIRC this issue is mentioned in the gitlab discussions (from months ago … not sure how this became news suddenly); they’re looking to patch Inter if they decide to use it as the UI font.

slacktoid ,
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Why do they do this?

priapus ,

Do what? Nothing has even been done yet, they’re just discussing the possibility of changing the font…

slacktoid ,
@slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

I mean making a font whete the l and I are the same

priapus ,

Fair, they’re pretty common but most fonts support OpenType variations which let you change parts of the fonts to other variants. Having a variant with distinct l’s and I’s is pretty common and Inter supports this.

slacktoid ,
@slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

but thats counter intuitive, why not stick to a clear fonts? im not gonna judge ones choices but i just dont understand it is all.

priapus ,

I agree, I wish fonts just defaulted to distinguishing between them

slacktoid ,
@slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

time for a mass boycott of bad fonts!!

HouseWolf ,

I’m normally not someone who gets hung up on fonts but this one thing bugs me SO MUCH.

bogpunk ,

The Inter typeface is very versatile and has many different options and variants, including more distinguishable uppercase i and lowercase L. The article just installed the base version as an example. rsms.me/inter/ https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/252a33ab-8b86-4bc0-abe0-2fda3cc1d5d2.png

moontorchy ,

Oh thanks! This is very helpful. Next thing to figure out is how to set those options as default. Found this gem after a bit of googling.

muhyb ,

Generally it renders much better but that’s a turn off for me as well.

priapus ,

Like most modern fonts, it supports a lot of OpenType features, so this can be changed dynamically. Changing some settings by default has already been mentioned in the discussion around the change.

boredsquirrel , (edited )
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TL;DR they switch to “Inter”

www.omglinux.com/gnome-may-switch-to-inter-font/

Peer ,

Not even that: merely looking to switch to Inter.

boredsquirrel ,
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True. A system font needs to be REALLY good.

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