The new font seems… thicker, somehow? There’s a kind of eye test you do at the optician where they ask you if the letters seem sharper or just thicker (or something), and this font reminds me of that. Like something is wrong with the prescription of my glasses.
The new font also feels noticeably smaller in some way. Maybe it’s the letter height? I lack the vocabulary to properly describe this. At the very least, the question mark looks noticeably weird. And e.g. in “t” and “p”, the upper and lower parts of the respective letter are weirdly tiny.
Incidentally there were also some other differences in the shape and alignment of UI elements (see the annotated screenshot).
Oh, and the hover tooltip for the agreement votes is now bugged; IIRC hovering over the agreement vote number is supposed to give you some extra info just like with karma, but now it just explains what agreement votes are.
Comparing with this Internet Archive snapshot from Oct 6, both at 150% zoom, both in desktop Firefox in Windows 11: Comparison screenshot, annotated
The new font seems… thicker, somehow? There’s a kind of eye test you do at the optician where they ask you if the letters seem sharper or just thicker (or something), and this font reminds me of that. Like something is wrong with the prescription of my glasses.
The new font also feels noticeably smaller in some way. Maybe it’s the letter height? I lack the vocabulary to properly describe this. At the very least, the question mark looks noticeably weird. And e.g. in “t” and “p”, the upper and lower parts of the respective letter are weirdly tiny.
Incidentally there were also some other differences in the shape and alignment of UI elements (see the annotated screenshot).
Oh, and the hover tooltip for the agreement votes is now bugged; IIRC hovering over the agreement vote number is supposed to give you some extra info just like with karma, but now it just explains what agreement votes are.