gui: Install bold variant of Inter font #1914
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Maybe, but that is bigger right? And a related question since cycy brought it up, does the variable font include all the sub-pixel hinting for cleartype/etc? |
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We could play around with that in another PR... |
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Inter's variable fonts do not have the hints. But honestly, after staring at the hinted text for a day, something subtle about the way they're rasterized makes me really hate them. Can't put my finger on it. Might have something to do with the forced So I'm all for swapping out the constant font files for the variable font. @opsinphark You want to do that? Should cut down the size of the final binary. |
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I can start a new PR for moving to the the variable font. Might take some playing around with to find the font right size that displays well in both normal and scaled aspects. |
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I've created a new PR for this, please checkout #1926 |
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This is a small follow-up for #1908.
I added the bold variant for the "Inter" font. This improves rendering accuracy and style faithfulness of bold-style text because the rendering engine can use the font data directly instead of extrapolating boldness from the regular variant. I also replaced the regular variant with a desktop font. The original appears to be a web font that doesn't include additional hinting data that may improve legibility in environments that support advanced font shaping (ClearType).
I did not include the italic variants because we don't use this style anywhere that I can see.
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The screenshot isn't a great example because it's running from a remote Linux session, but it does illustrate the differences between the shapes of the glyphs.