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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
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Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
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It was Marco Rubio, and his ukase was limited to Department of State documents.
We can, at least, thank our stars that Rubio doesn't presume to lord over the entire government as his master presumes to lord over everything else.
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#23As much as I appreciate the tiny serif for lowercase L and numeral 1 to differentiate l I and 1, I am not the biggest fan of the capital I glyph without the horizontal serifs. It's my biggest design gripe with most sans-serif fonts as it makes it FRUSTRATINGLY difficult to differentiate when looking at words by themselves. Is that lota or Iota? Is that iodestone or lodestone? Both real examples where I fumbled readin…
IBM Plex is very good. Recently, I have been enjoying https://rsms.me/inter/ for interfaces a bit more (with ss02 for body and ss02+tnum for tables activated).
Inter or linter?
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#24As much as I appreciate the tiny serif for lowercase L and numeral 1 to differentiate l I and 1, I am not the biggest fan of the capital I glyph without the horizontal serifs. It's my biggest design gripe with most sans-serif fonts as it makes it FRUSTRATINGLY difficult to differentiate when looking at words by themselves. Is that lota or Iota? Is that iodestone or lodestone? Both real examples where I fumbled readin…
My full list of ambiguous letters, from https://gajus.com/blog/avoiding-visually-ambiguous-character...
- O / 0 - I / l / 1 / 7 - 5 / S - 2 / Z - 8 / B - 6 / G - 9 / q / g
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
IBM Plex is very good. Recently, I have been enjoying https://rsms.me/inter/ for interfaces a bit more (with ss02 for body and ss02+tnum for tables activated).
Inter or linter?
Feature ss02 Disambiguation (one of many)
Alternate glyph set that increases visual difference between similar-looking characters.
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#26Isn't this from the people who hate Calibri?
No, looks like it was started late in Obama's second term. As for the current guys, they would probably use Instrument Serif for body text if they could.
Went down a short rabbit hole from this comment and they actually are using a condensed serif font like that on www.whitehouse.gov titles at the moment.
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Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#28As much as I appreciate the tiny serif for lowercase L and numeral 1 to differentiate l I and 1, I am not the biggest fan of the capital I glyph without the horizontal serifs. It's my biggest design gripe with most sans-serif fonts as it makes it FRUSTRATINGLY difficult to differentiate when looking at words by themselves. Is that lota or Iota? Is that iodestone or lodestone? Both real examples where I fumbled readin…
IBM Plex is very good. Recently, I have been enjoying https://rsms.me/inter/ for interfaces a bit more (with ss02 for body and ss02+tnum for tables activated).
Nice. Inter even has "U+1E9E" "Latin Capital Letter Sharp S" and two lower case sharp s variants as well.
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#29What does "strong" mean here? Doesn't it contradict "neutral"?
Anyway, the "c" and "e" are closing in too much.
Re: Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
#30anything on digital.gov is at best on life support given 18F was disbanded and much of the government digital service efforts have been neglected
The Secretary of State recently decreed that sans serif fonts were woke and mandated all communications use Times New Roman.