impallari
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6 days ago Hi Gabriel, thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. I'm currently working on adding BoldItalc to LibreBaskerville, but a Cabin general update is next.. I will keep this in mind.
Long story short, I use this as the UI font for YouTube and Mastodon.
This font has been a saving grace for my eyes when browsing YouTube and later Mastodon ever since YouTube pushed one particular update to its website: creators' handles are now shown _instead_ of their display names in the comments. I got quite angry because, not only has this made things confusing and cryptic in many cases (I swear, it's like YouTube wants us to refer to each other by codenames!), it also really made me consider just how stretched out, fleshy, and ugly the `COMMERCIAL AT` glyph in Roboto looks. I hate it, and I will never be able to unsee it. I found Cabin right around the time that this situation was starting, and when I saw how the glyph in it looks, I knew that I needed to make that my YouTube font, so I downloaded it, installed it, and made a custom stylesheet, and I've been enjoying it. Mastodon has been making the rounds lately, and it also chooses to use Roboto of all fonts, and with twice as many `COMMERCIAL AT` symbols around, I had to change it there as well. As a matter of fact, I actually get to take advantage of font features due to how its handles are formatted:  So that's pretty cool.However, I do have one major problem with the font: the zero is almost as wide as the letter O, which can especially be problematic for more exotic user handles and model codes. In this example, it would be easy to mistake
HSON0as HSONO.Normally, I'd have asked for a dotted zero alternate just like in Dosis. (If you know me well enough, you'll know that I do adore my dotted zeros.) That'd be welcome, but I actually have a better, more general idea than that: add tabular figures. This would solve two problems at once. Not only would a skinnier zero become available, but it would also make timers, such as the one shown above, less visually jarring as they change. Also, since it's a fairly common typographical alternate, this idea is something that people would be more likely to agree with than what's essentially just a fancy zero.
Oh, and, of course, I'd like to thank you for your work on all of the fonts that you've worked on over the years. Dosis is, in fact, the very first one that I found back in 2016, and I still use it to this day at the end of my YouTube videos.