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Inter-roman doesn't work well for international sites

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Description

assets/built.css is loading inter-roman from: ../fonts/inter-roman.woff2

Because inter-roman is only the roman characters of the font, display of heavily accented text is results in a mix of inter and fall-back font (Segoe on my browser) - which looks pretty bad!

Example:
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Proposed solution: Provide a full version of Inter within the theme, or at least make that an option within theme settings.

Discussion here: https://forum.ghost.org/t/certain-characters-appear-bold-in-navigation-font/47800/8

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Start by inspecting assets/built.css and its ../fonts/inter-roman.woff2 reference. Reproduce the issue with heavily accented text and compare the rendered font with the fallback shown in the report. Review the linked forum discussion, then confirm the chosen font approach removes the mixed-font appearance without breaking the theme.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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