The more I read about Discord's new font, the less impressed I am.

Their Kana support is limited to the glyphs needed for /tableflip, for example. Or so I've read.

Its kerning is all messed up; I've seen complaints from people with dyslexia and astigmatism. It aliases weird to my eyes too.

But a tier down from all that: Discord is the only thing on my *nix box that mandates its own font so it stands out like a sore thumb in my sea of Vera and Hack. :/

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@trysdyn what even is the point of having a custom font for it anyway. why would you do that.
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@Felthry My theory is since the rise of Apple, the idea that an app's UI/UX is part of its branding and corps should control that too has grown.

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