Post #5223

The recent discussions on gg sans sorta reminds me of how Discord’s old UI font used to perform bad in Vietnamese. Platforms with user generated content at Discord’s scale has an inevitably high bar on choosing a UI font, let alone customize one. When a platform is at that scale, you should expect users to write in all sort of languages, and do a good job at rendering them. If you are choosing a UI font, let it render ALL glyphs of a script (except CJK Han), or just don’t bother that script at all, and let the OS handle it. Otherwise, your users would had a bad time reading their messages with your custom fonts. Some examples: 1. Old Discord UI font (Whitney) fallbacks when rendering Vietnamese 2. New Discord UI font (gg sans) fallbacks when rendering Japanese (from geo_vitya) 🐦