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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree, I wish fonts just defaulted to distinguishing between them

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

time for a mass boycott of bad fonts!!