Two-storey miniscule g

[jamesarosen]

I'd love to see an option for a two-storey miniscule (lowercase) g.

The a is two-storey by default with an option (cv11) to turn it to single-storey. This might suggest that the default for g should be two-storey. Building on that, there might be room for an ss set that combines all the storey options.

On the other had, making two-storey the default for g is a bit of a "breaking change." It's possible that the two-storey a is actually the one that's "out of place."

[rben01]

+1 — I would also love to see a two storey lowercase g in Inter.

FWIW, plenty of fonts seem to have a double storey “a” and a one storey “g”. Not sure how that came to be, but Helvetica, Arial, Roboto, Noto, Nunito... the list goes on. For whatever reason it's the single storey “a” that is, statistically speaking, out of place. (I'd wager that it's because a single storey “a” looks a bit like an “o”, whereas there's no such confusion with a “g”.)

[rsms]

The single-storey g stems back to early grotesks of the late 19th century, like Schattierte Grotesk and Akzidenz-Grotesk. It is believed to have been done that way to make the letter more recognizable as how you write “g” by hand. This is my understanding, at least.

Single-storey a is trickier since it looks like o at smaller sizes (and is the reason you usually only see single-storey a either at display sizes or in italic where there’s a bigger difference to o.)