Geometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
Jane Solomon
It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why:
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