The Inter typeface is very versatile and has many different options and variants, including more distinguishable uppercase i and lowercase L. The article just installed the base version as an example. https://rsms.me/inter/ 
Oh thanks! This is very helpful. Next thing to figure out is how to set those options as default. Found this gem after a bit of googling.
Yeah that's really frustrating
Fair, they're pretty common but most fonts support OpenType variations which let you change parts of the fonts to other variants. Having a variant with distinct l's and I's is pretty common and Inter supports this.
Like most modern fonts, it supports a lot of OpenType features, so this can be changed dynamically. Changing some settings by default has already been mentioned in the discussion around the change.
I guess they're copying mainstream OSes (at least Android) with this one
IIRC this issue is mentioned in the gitlab discussions (from months ago ... not sure how this became news suddenly); they're looking to patch Inter if they decide to use it as the UI font.
TL;DR they switch to "Inter"
True. A system font needs to be REALLY good.
The article isn't great as it fails to mention that Gnome is considering a variation of Inter and not the default and therefore the article uses the wrong font in the screenshot. It addresses some of the concerns people have mentioned, like the capital I and lower l being the same
Please don't hate me but I use Segoe UI
Oh... so I better not tell you that I also use windows folder icons because gnomes blue folders make no fucking sense
That's the photo where he took a selfie with the hat, in front of the billboard which is a photo of him with the new hat, Yea?
My main go-to fonts are; VL Gothic, Jetbrains
Mono, M Plus
They don't. They're thinking of switching to another font.
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Capital i is same as non-capital L... So a horrible font for me.
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