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ravynsoft / ravynos

A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
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Replace Nimbus Sans with Inter #424

Open inferno986return opened 6 months ago

inferno986return commented 6 months ago

I am excited about the progress on building a new yet familiar UI for ravynos. I am aware from a previous issue that Nimbus Sans was chosen as the default UI font: https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/issues/23

Can I request the default UI font be replaced with Inter? Apple used Helvetica 10 years ago as a go-between from Lucida Grande to San Francisco. Being a neo-grotesque sans-serif which was never designed as a screen UI font, Helvetica can be unpleasant to read, particularly at small sizes (the new Helvetica Now does address this, though).

Tobias Frere Jones of Gotham fame elaborates on why Helvetica is a poor UI font: https://usabilitypost.com/2014/06/04/tobias-frere-jones-on-helvetica/

[Helvetica] really wasn’t designed for small sizes on screens. Words like milliliter can be very difficult to decipher. If you ever had to read or write a password with 1, i, l or I, you know the problem.

Inter is more friendly to read and it also resembles Apple's San Francisco: https://rsms.me/inter/

There's also Roboto, though it's less aesthetically pleasing. 🙂

mszoek commented 6 months ago

Yes, good callout here. I'll look into it.