Twitter has a barely totally different font on the net.
I would not have seen; the distinction is pretty small in comparison with the outdated one (The Verge(Opens in a brand new window) was the primary to report on the change). Actually, as identified by NiemanLab’s Joshua Benton(Opens in a brand new window), the font itself hasn’t modified; it is nonetheless Twitter’s personal font referred to as Chirp(Opens in a brand new window), however now it makes use of OpenType stylistic units to make it simpler to distinguish characters which might be sometimes very related, reminiscent of capital I and lowercase L, and 0 (which now has a diagonal line over it) and o.
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These modifications are solely seen in Twitter handles, which is arguably the place they’re most helpful, as they make it simpler to distinguish actual from faux accounts. Keep in mind the infinite variants of @e10nmusk prompting you to purchase cryptocurrency? Now these swindlers shall be simpler to identify.
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Oddly sufficient, the change is not but seen on cell (see instance beneath), although we reckon it is only a matter of time.
High: Internet model of Twitter with the brand new font. Backside: Twitter on the iPhone. Discover the slashed ‘0’ in ‘0xPolygon’
Credit score: Stan Schroeder/Twitter
This isn’t the primary time Twitter has made modifications to the font it makes use of. Chirp changed Segoe UI(Opens in a brand new window) in Jan. 2021, and the corporate has used numerous totally different fonts(Opens in a brand new window) all through its historical past.
This newest font change, nonetheless, offers hope that somebody at Twitter actually is making an attempt to scale back spam and impersonations on the platform, as Elon Musk promised earlier than he took over.
