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Innes @aliengeo12/4/2022, 6:27 AM

bloom.sys @maple

bloom.sys @maple11/30/2022, 8:04 AM

given the track record of discord's ui design i am so ready for this to be 5x worse than the current font

bloom.sys @maple12/2/2022, 7:28 AM

TAke a look, y'all: (left is original whitney, right is new gg sans)

i havent recieved this update yet so unsure how it looks in the rest of the ui (i grabbed this from twitter) but it's a lot more straight and a lot more thin. main problems:

big one is that it seems really unfriendly for those with dyslexia and many have complained about it
lots of charcter support has been removed including cryllic / greek, and japanese symbols with only 3 kana supported (guesss what - its ones in discord's default shrug / tableflip kaomoji)
trying to scale the ui / font past 100% results in weird stretching

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in reply to @maple's post:

Μάρκος @postgarf11/30/2022, 8:10 AM

please god don't be worse please god don't be worse please god don't be worse i can already go on a 2 page long rant about discord's awful regular font choices please don't be worse discord i beg

@lexi11/30/2022, 8:12 AM

they called it "gg sans" do you seriously expect that it will be usable lol

@lexi11/30/2022, 8:11 AM

also their designers apparently push to production without talking to their lawyers first lol https://cohost.org/lexi/post/412709-something-pretty-fun

bloom.sys @maple11/30/2022, 8:18 AM

good lord

@lexi11/30/2022, 8:24 AM

i sometimes wonder why twitter is dying while discord still manages to survive somehow

helleano)))r @listeninggarden11/30/2022, 8:14 AM

i cannae believe they called it gg sans

Funy Dogie!@Funy-Dogie11/30/2022, 10:50 AM

i love how they didn't make the message announcing the font actually, y'know, have the font

Stoner cat @compsense11/30/2022, 5:19 PM

I was a little nervous about it, but everything's looked fine from what I can see!

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Sora @HeySora12/2/2022, 9:21 AM

characters with heavy diacratics (such as vietnamese) are actually fixed
maybe they're just progressively deploying the font for different languages, slowly

in tuft we trust @tit12/2/2022, 1:01 PM

imo the ''g'' in this font deserves to be bullied. use the one from the original italics instead, not this squiggly shape