I have long held that serif typefaces are the only true typefaces to properly read body text.

This comes as a result of fealty to the elegance of a good serif, attachment to some classic typefaces (Bodoni, University of California Old Style, Baskerville), but mostly from the kind of assholishness that comes from holding on to an irrational idea for too long (I got into an argument with someone about this years and years ago, and, the more I argued, the more I dug a deep hole for myself from which I could not escape).

Things came to a head this week: I published a post that contained an inordinate number of numero signs. In the typeface that had long been used here for body text, Vollkorn, these rendered inelegantly for reasons I never got to the bottom of.

Unable to withstand the flaky numeros any longer, I played with a few serif faces, all of which were wrong in some way (or simply less readable). Then I read of a new release of the sans serif Inter, and decided, on a lark, to try it out.

And I loved it.

So here it shall remain, in all its dreamy irrational lack of serif.