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My test is simple: does it have a monospace variant and does it support Japanese? If not, then it's worse than IBM Plex.
by tmtvl 2y ago
My test is simple: does it have a monospace variant and does it support Japanese? If not, then it's worse than IBM Plex.
- delta_p_delta_x 2y agoOh, non-Latin type faces are an entirely different ball-game, don't even get me started. I have massive respect for CJK type designers; there are thousands of glyphs! Designing a good new typeface must take years, if not decades.
- numpad0 2y agoThis is weird to say, but it never occurred to me previously that an ISO-8859-1 font perfectly consistent with all variants of itself + CJK(by switching variants or whatever) would be massively useful. CJK speakers usually switch and mix fonts as needed to build a content than trying to pick single font for everything, and vast majority of people just don't understand multiple languages, so there are little driving forces towards a single universal font solution. But a universal font makes sense. It's almost odd that this is so rarely said out loud.