Excalidraw scrappy font is hard to read about virgil HOT 9 OPEN

Low contrast between capital and lower case letters.

I disagree on this point for Latin letters, but this is pretty much the case for Cyrillic.

The digit "1" – it is just a stick

Agree, it's not very readable on its own in captions like "Group 1". Captions like "Group 10" or "2019" are fine though.

Little spacing between some letters make them glue together like ligatures

Agree about the pairings "ec", "er", "ei", "eo" whereas "es" looks fine to me.

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I see the same issue as you.

excalidraw/excalidraw#1651 would resolve this!

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Constructive comments thank you - but hard to work with. Do you have any visual examples of your issues? I am working with the font right now so just add them and I'll change them as they come!

Thanks,
Ellinor

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Thank you Ellinor for looking into this. I cannot share specific diagrams and text from them that I found took too much time to parse, but I tried to come up with similar combinations of letters in the image below. I noticed that the readability is highly dependent on the familiarity with the specific terms. I wrote this feedback from looking at a large diagram with unfamiliar concepts for the first time (also English is not my first language). Now that I look at it again, it's still not a snap of fingers to read a word but much easier after I've already seen these words written in this font.

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pls consider adding font selection functionality. :)

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88.9 is also very unreadable, more though when zooming.

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One more :)

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We're looking for another handwritten font. If you could add suggestions for the fonts listed in this issue that'd be useful. Thanks! excalidraw/excalidraw#2945

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FWIW, I like your font, expect the capital D is bothersome (over-the-top arch lines to the left). I think a few other characters are, too.

I have used HANDYHANDY and Drafting Table. There are a few others that are nice, and I reference Andre Drafting below. I have no idea of cost/royalties for massively internet services/applications. I think some are "free" as in donations can be given. Maybe OSS and free services get special consideration.

https://www.dafont.com/handyhandy.font

https://www.dafont.com/drafting-table.font

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/andre-design/andre-drafting/

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