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> Font Bureau’s house standards for quality show up in a few subtle updates to Roboto’s neo-grotesque sans design, including switching the default numeral style from tabular lining to proportional...

Uhh why? Thanks, but no thanks

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I think most proportional fonts work this way by default? At any rate, enabling tabular figures is a step I expect to need to take when I want rows of numbers to align when using an otherwise proportional font.

I'm with you there. I've never wanted numerals to be random widths. They should be tabular by default. If you really want them to be random you can set the option to make them so.

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