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Man, what is that headline font?

Its onezero-yellix-alt

From the Type Foundry from whence it came:

Yellix is a mono-linear geometrical sans-serif font family. It was designed in the time I fell in love with Paul Renner’s first sketch of Futura and I also explored stylistic sets, so I added a lot of strict and cold alternatives (“a, g, m, n, r, t, etc.”). I enjoyed having the possibility to create tensions between circular and square shapes. You will also find less geometrically based alternatives. Yellix has horizontal or vertical terminals and the circle forms are punched into the stems.

More here if you're interested: https://displaay.net/typeface/yellix/

It's hilarious. I've just learned a bit of Cyrillic during holidays, and even I can hardly stop reading it as "OpeZego" and so on. It must be almost unreadable for people from the many countries with a Cyrillic alphabet.

You can't imagine how often it happens when someone is trying to appear "Russian" or just trying to be fancy. As a native speaker, you can't help but keep reading it in Cyrillic, and the result is completely garbled.

The hall of fame includes "Tetyais" and "Boyadt".

Well, it's not unreadable at all, though a bit ambiguous, for me. I think people who's native languages only have Cyrillic letters don't struggle with it as much as some people who's languages have two official alphabets - i.e. my native Serbian, which has Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, that are equally taugh in schools, accepted by the government and un-prejudiced (well, other than extreme right people who force Cyrillic as the only "true" alphabet [sigh]).

However, it's extremely rare to see Cyrillic mixed with Latin letters in a word or sentence and have it intentionally mean both, so my mind doesn't interpret it like that. That's why P is not R to me or C is not S...

We need a “Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously designed title fonts.”

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