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Capital i is same as non-capital L... So a horrible font for me.
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. https://rsms.me/inter/
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.
Yeah that's really frustrating
Why do they do this?
Do what? Nothing has even been done yet, they're just discussing the possibility of changing the font...
I mean making a font whete the l and I are the same
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.
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.
I agree, I wish fonts just defaulted to distinguishing between them
time for a mass boycott of bad fonts!!
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.
I guess they're copying mainstream OSes (at least Android) with this one
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.
Generally it renders much better but that's a turn off for me as well.
I'm normally not someone who gets hung up on fonts but this one thing bugs me SO MUCH.