Proposal - Change default Inter font to Atkinson Legible (or other)

[Draise14]

In Blender 4.0+, the default font has changed. Right now the fonts are Inter, which is more compact and designed for GUI. But it also has some kerning issues which affects legibility specially at smaller scales.

Some comments:

Personal opinion. I absolutely hate Inter; it has a wide horizontal space not suitable for dense UIs. Other than that it's only decent for a generic sans typeface

The kerning on the i And the n

someone pointed out a font designed for legibility called Atkinson Legible - which is also license compatible. I gave it a go.

Now:

Inter

Proposed:

Atkinson Legible
Note: The 0 is crossed out to differentiate between O
https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
This font was prized for low sight legibility and built by the same institute that made braille. It also is.. happenstance more compact.

What do you think? To change default font is easy, but should we? A bit of branding? Focus on legibility? Or leave as is?

[Draise14]

The reason they chose a variable font inter is for variability though... so might not be a good idea

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112454

[ReinerBforartists]

Hmm, tough one. I like the Inter also better ^^

[Draise14]

Yeah, it's really minute the differences - other than the 0s. Probably a non-issue.