The "Inter" font displays "x" as "×" between digits

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The "Inter" font displays "x" as "×" between digits #19

Closed Rangi42 closed 2 years ago

Rangi42 commented 3 years ago

This misrepresents hex literals like "0xFF" or "0x143".

(Using a custom font also causes a "flash of unstyled text" as the @font-face loads. I'd recommend listing just standard fonts that come with Windows, macOS, and typical Linux.)

ISSOtm commented 3 years ago

Maybe we should switch to a system fonts stack. What would be a good one, though?

Rangi42 commented 3 years ago

From Stack Overflow:

Sans serif: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif
Monospace: ui-monospace, "Cascadia Mono", "Segoe UI Mono", "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, monospace

(That's taken from inspecting their current CSS. The discussion mentions using Ubuntu and Roboto fonts, but those were removed after feedback.)

GitHub uses:

Sans serif: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
Monospace: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, "SF Mono", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace

aaaaaa123456789 commented 3 years ago

Have you considered just using sans-serif and monospace directly? Most browsers set these to sensible defaults. If the idea is "provide a reasonable default", that functionality already exists on the user agent side and there's no need to duplicate it.

Rangi42 commented 3 years ago

The defaults are generally Arial and Courier, which arguably look worse than the system fonts.

avivace commented 2 years ago

This misrepresents hex literals like "0xFF" or "0x143".

(Using a custom font also causes a "flash of unstyled text" as the @font-face loads. I'd recommend listing just standard fonts that come with Windows, macOS, and typical Linux.)

I never saw this issue so sorry for being this late. It's a simple feature very easy to disable/enable via CSS: https://rsms.me/inter/#features. It's a "contextual alternative".

I am against using system fonts stack as they look unconsistent across OSes and the default ones on common distributions are horrible (and don't get me started on Windows ClearType cc @LIJI32 )

avivace commented 2 years ago

Is this still happening? @Rangi42

Rangi42 commented 2 years ago

Yes, like "The default is 0x00." in https://rgbds.gbdev.io/docs/v0.5.2/rgbasm.1.