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by lifthrasiir 1378 days ago
In fact, its design choice is questionable even as a title font. Normally the text color will be chosen so that it has enough contrast compared to the background. With color fonts you can't always change the text color, but you can still change the background. Gilbert however contains all hues in a single glyph, so some part of each glyph is always going to be hard to distinguish from the background without much care.