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its-summertime 4 days ago

that C is annoyingly O-ish, and the blurring... feels almost like its made by an anti-optician

jamesdwilson 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

it was derived from eye charts that are explicitly designed to find defects in your eyes - it is not a coincidence the O and C look similar.

artemisart 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes I don't understand how they can claim it's optimized for legibility when the base font does the inverse.

jantissler 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And there are also alternative versions of many letters as shown further down on the page.

Telemakhos 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There's an alternative, more squarish C; about half the letters have alternative glyphs. If you're using macOS Font Book, scroll down to the bottom of the repertoire to see the alt glyphs.