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The Inter font family
https://rsms.me/inter/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Alternate glyphs - serifed capital "I" and digit 3 with a flat top. #89

Closed mm-2018 closed 5 years ago

mm-2018 commented 5 years ago

If this is possible, I would prefer to have an alternative character for I which would include serifs - for neo-grotesque typefaces similar to this, I would prefer to read serifed Is over curled lowercase ls. I commend you on being able to address this legibility issue quite promptly with I and l as well as 0 and O, which does not seem to be the case with many other existing open source sans-serif typefaces.

Additionally, for users of the Cyrillic alphabet, being easily able to distinguish between digit 3 and capital з would be highly beneficial for them, so I would like to suggest this as well. Few existing open source typefaces, especially sans-serif ones, take this into consideration. I suggest the inclusion of an alternative digit 3 glyph which uses a flat top, in order to create a distinction between the glyphs.

rsms commented 5 years ago

I've been wanting to add a serif upper case "i" for a while and have a change coming. I'll wrap it up...

rsms commented 5 years ago

Inter-UI-3.0-47f3df3fcc.zip

Here's a build with alternate serif upper case i.

Access it by enabling cv08 or ss02 (in a web browser, that means setting font-feature-settings: "cv08" in CSS)

Samples of the new glyphs:

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mm-2018 commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for your response. Is there a way to access this alternate glyph without a web browser?

rsms commented 5 years ago

@mm-2018 Access OpenType settings for the app you’re using. Some apps don’t expose it, but many do. For instance any native macOS app like TextEdit or Keynote, or design tools like Adobe Illustrator.

rsms commented 5 years ago

For the flat-top "three", it would be best with a separate issue to track that request.