Journal: Uses immature font (News Cycle)

[Chealer]

Journal prefers the News Cycle font. This font generally looks nice in my opinion, but is unfortunately immature and its development is visibly stalled. The current version, 0.5.2, was released in 2015, and an important bug which was reported in 2012 persists.

To put it simply, this bug (displaying guillemets incorrectly) alone make News Cycle "unusable" in French, and probably in other major languages.

[thomaspark]

Thanks for the issue.

We should consider switching for a similar Gothic style font. For instance Gothic A1 seems to handle guillemets correctly.

Until the official update, the font can be overridden with the $web-font-path variable.

[Chealer]

Oh, Gothic A1 indeed looks similar to News Cycle, which I like.

Thanks for the suggestion, but to clarify, guillemets are of course just one character among many which matter for Western languages. Gothic A1 does seem to handle guillemets fine, but the real problem reported here is general immaturity.
I do not know anything about Gothic A1, but Google Fonts suggests its popularity is similar to News Cycle's (low). More importantly, it does not seem to have a public source repository, nor a public ITS. I guess that amounts to making it even less mature than News Cycle. :-/

[thomaspark]

I see, that makes sense. I'll take nominations for a better font here.