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anything 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.
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Times New Roman is the worst serif font they could have picked.
To be fair, it's replacing Calibri, so it's still an improvement. We should just use Garamond or Caslon for everything, but that'll never happen. :(
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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 is the only libre typeface that has good coverage, and produces readable small text on terrible 80 DPI displays. I've tested probably hundreds of them.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=lllll%2...
I never understood why a font designer would ever choose to do that. There should be an ironclad rule that different letters must look different.
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I think you have it the other way around. It's not used because it's the default font in Figma. It's the fact that it's the best modern alternative to Helvetica, making it universally useful and therefore the default in Figma. Incidentally, I'll forever mourn that the designers didn't choose to go with a glyph for "1" that is closer to the one in Helvetica.
Inter is the default in Figma because the first designer at Figma was the guy who created it.
I guess I can try to argue that it if it weren't as generally useful as Helvetica it wouldn't have been made the default in Figma and it wouldn't be, well, so generally used.
As 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…
anything 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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hasn't Inter been the default tech font for the last 5 years or so by virtue of being the default font in Figma? The Times New Roman of UI.
I think you have it the other way around. It's not used because it's the default font in Figma. It's the fact that it's the best modern alternative to Helvetica, making it universally useful and therefore the default in Figma. Incidentally, I'll forever mourn that the designers didn't choose to go with a glyph for "1" that is closer to the one in Helvetica.
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The Secretary of State recently decreed that sans serif fonts were woke and mandated all communications use Times New Roman.
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