Aug 4, 2020

Selawik Font and DavidDev1
Selawik was released by Microsoft as an open source font as a replacement for the proprietary Segoe UI. This is pretty significant and unthinkable (Microsoft and open source?) just a few years ago. They even release the glyphs source file. Wow!
This is not broadly advertised so a bit of a niche font. I do like the many great fonts available for free on Google fonts but I am always more intrigued by something not as widely used yet distinct.
I found this font to be interesting but it also suffers for the confusing capital I that looks too similar to the lowercase l. This is what I mean:
I have already discussed this before (see
just one letter changes makes a lot of difference in terms of legibility. I updated to the full version of Glyphs
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[2]: /images/1251597521429986-15469.jpg
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