Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font
by nativeit on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:03PM
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Inter quickly became my go-to sans serif font for the web. In A/B tests it somehow always looks better than anything, frequently by wide margins—which is saying something when you’re basically running through a dozen variations on Helvetica.
Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font
by giraffe_lady on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:26PM
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The number of fonts that include even two good alphabets is pretty low. I have run into needing english and greek or cyrillic in the same document. I know of like three good fonts that have a good english and a good greek. My eye isn't as practiced at looking at cyrillic fonts but it seems even rarer for that combination.
Which honestly makes sense and there may not be a solution for. Different alphabets and writing systems have their own typographical histories and conventions. It's reasonable that there is a very limited design space where you're adhering to the conventions of two separate systems as well as maintaining interior consistency.
Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font
by thefringthing on Friday September 13, 2024 @01:39AM
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English is a language, Cyrillic is an alphabet, and Greek is both. The alphabet one finds in the range U+0000 to U+007F is called "Latin", not "English". If any alphabet has a claim on being "English", it's Shavian. (Found at U+10450 to U+1047F.)
Re:What you can get out of a high-quality font
by jfdjkfdhjds on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:08PM
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thats the kind of nitpick that got us where we are today :)
if you're talking with users, you assume alphabets and map from the languages.
macOS used to ship with a beautiful Hebrew typeface that was like the open-source font Shofar, but it seems to have been removed. I do not see similar Hebrew letters in one of the remaining typefaces. I imagine that it is not easy to give a typeface a consistent feel, in all Latin and non-Latin character sets, to the fluent readers of those languages.