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The new font doesn't even have Arabic characters in my browser. It just gets rendered in Segoe UI. Which is fine, for what it's worth.
https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1425827687428415489
It's extremely similar to Roboto, which is how it was rendered for me before the change. So it seems almost like nothing happened.
The difference is quite obvious, at least on Windows. Roboto is narrower, better hinted, has fewer embellishments, got a better consistency ("rhythm") and as a result it's much easier on the eyes. Here, side by side - https://i.imgur.com/tXokROR.png - Roboto at the top, Chirp at the bottom.
I personally can’t stand reading Twitter, but I do like posting jokes and comments for my small group of friends. I built this to delegate posting to Twitter via GitHub actions from markdown files in the repo. https://github.com/reidjs/markdown-tweet-scheduler
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But tens to even hundreds of times smaller than any single tweet that has an image in it, so not really a useful metric.
That attitude is why web pages have gotten so bloated. https://twitter.com/Twitter is 1.6mb. (200k+ of fonts, 500k+ of JS)