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I'm a bit put off by the "bent-iron" quality of how the curves and straights meet, like this is a type designed to mimic neon signs. There are some nice touches, though. It looks great bold.

That said, having that image with the type super small and basically at the extreme limit of legibility (I can barely read it) I don't think does you a service. Do a nice big species with lots of common use cases! This one looks like mush.

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Agreed on both counts. The 'a' looks particularly awkward.

It's 95% of a really nice font, but that last 5% makes all the difference.

Interesting, the 'a' also caught my attention straight away, but I think it's particularly beautiful.

I've started noticing different a's recently in typography since it was pointed out to me that people with dyslexia and people with lower literacy skills struggle with the "upright" style lowercase A (as show in this font and a lot of other popular fonts) as opposed to the "italic" style lowercase A that most people hand write.

Why is the italic lower case A so different from bold and regular lower case A for Clear Sans? The italic version matches better the @ used as well.

You're right, the italic a is like from a completely different typeface, wow. I kind of like it better, and since it's under an open-source license, I might make a version with this version as the general one.

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